The back part of the robe is interesting, it resembles the "tail" of an owl.
If saying that owl part is weird, I guess the robe is weird. But I like it because it's weird. XD
But your comparing like the most expensive non-PD armour with the cheapest(?) PD armour
Light Melka cost 2.3k at edern and Claus Knight Cost 1 gold =/
on topic: personally I quite like the owl robe, though the owl part looks weird, robes are pretty cheap to repair though, like less than 500 gold at simon