From what I remember reading that armour was an intentional decision to "fight the Patriarchy" by making the armour look like testicles. That's the level of maturity in the writing room.

Also, the ironic thing is the Nilfgaardians are often called "The Black Ones" because of their near all black aesthetics and I wish someone at Netflix had been retarded enough to try and use that term for a group that was cast to be almost entirely white because they were "the bad guys".

Maybe that's even too far for the idiots at Netflix to try and float.