ISO: Femme but not fatal.
Alas, Josephine (Jacqueline Bisset) was in her hotel room recovering from bronchitis.Years ago, I saw an interview and Bisset said she went to museums and looked for some kind of cape or coat that would be historically accurate and didn't find anything. All her clothes for Napolean and Josephine: A Love Story had lots of cleavage on display and her shoulders were often bare and the result was bronchitis as a consequence of filming in costume.
Perhaps the women of that era did cover up and keep warm in winter but the actress could find no record of it. I think of that interview anytime I see clothing advertised as winter clothing and made out of stereotypical winter fabrics which nonetheless have cleavage on display.
I wonder why anyone makes such clothes and if anyone actually buys it. The not-quite-free promotional item that prompted this post makes me think that if it sells at all, it's because the price is ridiculously low, cheaper than I can typically find t-shirts on half-price sales at second-hand stores.
Most women's clothes seems to be designed to display cleavage. It seems to be the reason women's tops have such open necklines: You aren't allowed to cover up.
When I had an entry level corporate job, it was challenging for me to find clothes that actually met the standards for our business casual dress code. Wearing a lot of men's t-shirts in recent years has only helped make it clear in my mind how pervasive this issue is for women's clothing.
I resent living in a world where there seem to be no clothes readily available that both accommodate my female shape and also cover me up enough to stay warm in winter. If it isn't a turtleneck or mock turtleneck, it probably doesn't actually come up to your neck and a V-neck on a men's sweater is typically a much smaller opening than on a women's sweater.
There seem to be essentially no options between overly sexy and overly butch. Feminine clothes without looking like a movie villain femme fatale seem to largely not exist anymore.