Quote Originally Posted by Felis View Post
It's cloth armor. You don't wear them for protection, you wear them to look awesome.
Cloth armor is worn to be loose enough to easily make the grand gestures to enact arcane channeling. Ethereal energy easily flows and collects in bound and woven material making various cloths, especially cotton and silk, ideal for mages. Metals usually make for an improper conduit, save for more soft metals like Gold, which would make fro crappy armor anyway.

I guess.