Glam Idea

[Iscah]

I assume it's rather too complicated to build a "hood up" system because they keep making robes with detached hoods instead.

I think I'd rather see a more general "remove one part of the body gear model" setting (eg. turn off skirts or pauldrons or dangly pieces) that in this case could switch off the hanging hood, and with a corresponding head piece to wear in its place.

As for the Sophist's Robe, I'd be happy with getting a second maskless version of the robe and the separate mask as headwear, since those already exist and are worn by a number of NPCs. But the devs are a bit funny with quest rewards sometimes - giving us one version of NPC gear but never the other. There's an alternate design for every piece of the Crystarium guard armour, for example, but we only get the one given to us.