Semi new player looking for advice.

[Niwashi]

If you can get your hand on some glamor prisms, however, you should be able to wear the Shire gear but change their outward appearance to be your DRG AF1 armor. Provided you have the DRG AF armor in the first place. You can't glam something you don't have.

Use of the glamour system also requires a quest to unlock it. (It's just a quick talk to a couple NPCs quest.) The quest is A Self-improving Man, which you can pick up from Wiscard in Mor Dhona (x22.1, y6.7).