Light, female, vanilla: Scaled, Dawnguard, Fur (the ones with a full bodice, not the bikini versions).
Heavy, female, vanilla: Steel, Dawnguard.
Light, male, vanilla: Thieves Guild, Blackguard, Dawnguard.
Heavy, male, vanilla: Nordic Carved, Steel Plate, Dawnguard.
Modded: Too many to choose from, and it depends A LOT on the character. But I'm very fond of http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/7184/?, http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/24342/? and http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/18008/?.
Heavy:
Male- Carved Nordic & Blades
Female- Iron & Dawnguard
Light: Male- Dawnguard & Thieves guild
Female- vampire or Dawnguard
Cloth:
Male- Mourners clothing with black boots or Tavern cloths with the Brown boots with lighter buttons
Female- Miners clothing with the lace-up boots and hood, I like the looks of the hide bracer's with this outfit, even if it is armor
Robes:
Male or female- Taron Dreth's robes or the Dragons cult robes.
-Carved Nord Body
-Dragonscale Boots and Gloves and Shield
-Dragonplate Helm
For heavy armor it'd have to be orcish or ebony
Light armor probably dragonscale(elven armor makes your character look like big bird)
I don't really like any of the vanilla helmets though. Maybe the steel one with horns
I like Ancient Nord and Saviors Hide from the waist up
You mean the Nord pimpin armor with the big black boa?
Same here, I like anything that looks battle worn and the Ancient Nord represents but I rock the steel Nord gauntlets with it...I almost never wear a matching set of anything.
Look at you sporting the sixy mod armor...traitor
ha I'm just messing with you, I'm happy for you kinsman
If I were on PC then I would likely never use vanilla armor again and would probably pester a forum friend to create custom armor/weapons to my liking
Light: Full Fur - no helmet, Dawnguard - no helmet, Thieves Guild/Guild Master, Dragonscale.
Heavy: Iron, Dawnguard, Ancient Nord. Blades look good on females so I sometimes give it to my wife.
I forgot. I love the Barbarian armour from Theminblack's UNPB Armour shop.
I think my personal favourite is to combine a full suit of Daedric armour with a Falmer helm. Looks way badass.
for warriors i usually go with deadric once its available using wolf armor till then
for theives and assasins i go with nightingale
and fir mages i go with archmages robes, deadric gauntlets and boots with morikai
Nightingale Armour is ridiculous and silly looking and in no way inconspicuous, so I quite like that. Heavy Dawnguard Armour I also think looks great.
My most used and favourite is Orcish though, even though I prefer Light Armour for speed and stamina regeneration.
My favorite combo is :
Hide,Nordic Carved gauntlets & boots,Jagged Crown,Nordic Carved Shield.
Full set...I would say Blackguard's or any of the Thieves Guild armor variants.
Ebony, steel plate, banded iron, and Linwe's/Blackguard's Armor.
Most of the armors already mentioned i like too. One i dont see mentioned alot that i like is Bonemold. Its got pretty decent stats, and i especially like the shield.