The kind of ' robe armor' thing ( inspired from asian culture) is actually something i like from an aesthetic point of view, the problem is that the game used such poor models for it on most SM sets with no distinction between armor part and robe( they all blend ugly in the game except maybe the SoV armor).
If you take a loot at some of the concept Art for the game, it looks much better.
https://warhammerfantasy.fandom.com/wik ... fHoeth.jpg
Hence the answer to make a better apperance is to use certain dyes to try and minimize this( contrasts such as white/black in the right part. As mentioned another problem is that the SM sets are very dye - unfriendly hence why we have told the devs to make the SoV cloak at least dyable with an alternate skin.
P.S. SM helms are really ugly indeed, but you got the best hair options of all races at least
