Enough with this Armor Silhouette! Enough!

[Absurdity]

It's the "game's specifications" fault.
iirc I think it has to do with rigging or something, every model has the same bones for the big skirts even if that gear doesn't have a skirt. So they mostly just make stuff that fits the mold.

Every skeleton has those skirt bones, otherwise skirts wouldn't work, but you can simply not rig the model to said bones and it will completely ignore them.

There is no technical reason why all the gear has some kind of skirt or cape attached to it nowadays, it's just a weird design decision they made.


As a side note, the reason capes look so awful in this game is because there aren't actually any "cape bones" the cape is just rigged to the character's spine and leg bones.