I'm begging you, they're all so stylish and badass but they're so much worse than a cape + hat. They're straight up noob traps right now.
Either A let us put the hood down and lose half the buffs so i can wear a hat (bonus points if the let-down hood is visible),
Or B make the hood a separate piece of equipment gildable on its own.
You could also just make them all come with 2 gilding slots but that's kinda weird.