According to one person I was chatting with, unless the female character on the cover is the heroine, having under-dressed and over-endowed women on a cover is now frowned upon. Why the exception for the heroine since inside the book they tend to dress appropriately for their activities, I didn't quite understand. One recent fantasy, the cover had a battle scene where the heroine was wearing an outfit that reminded me of the cover of Chicks in Chainmail while inside the book, she wore light weight dwarven forged armour.
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