Than the spandex suit you get for the Dark Brotherhood... what they give you doesnt even make sense... skin-tight leather, with no armour in an ice cold climate? The riften guard armour works much better. Its both dark and is a usable armour.

DB armor looks like you're into bdsn and all that.

Solitude guard armour works better.
Red like the Dark Bruvahood armour and Decent protection.

The DB armour looks childish. Now, the armour the Riften guards wear is very nice.

You mean the clown armor. Yeah, get rid of the studs and make it black with some hints of red with an oversized cowl that actually covers the face and upper torso that gives the illusion of weather protection, but I guess the clown look was the way to go

I normally just wear the boots that the DB gives you and maybe the gloves but keep whatever armor I am wearing at the time on. Which is probably some guard armor from one of the cities,

I actually like the Dark Brotherhood armour.....especially when it's on their corpses!

Nightingale Armor > Dark Brotherhood Armor

Ebony mail with nightingale boots, gloves, and cowl is the best assassin armor

To me DB armor looks like the outfit that the ninjas of ancient Japan used to wear.

Which kinda makes sense as Ninjas were assassins.

Ninja outfits weren't to my knowledge made of leather but clothe and some may have had a bit of padding for protection.

Personally I prefer assassins & thieves in clothes rather than armor as it make better sense for sneak (assuming weight of equipment is an issue)

Guard Armor makes me look fat...

Assassin armor for me is just normal citizens clothing. I prefer to blend in with society rather than Shadows.

Tavern clothes is good for a female assassin.

I'm usually either in fur armour (or forsworn or saviour's hide), or clothes, depending on if I'm a barbarian or an archer and where I am and what I'm doing. Can't say any of the armours look good to me but if any do I guess it is guard armours.

The Dark Brotherhood's choice of attire is just another reason they give me to despise them.

TG master armor, Nightingale hood, vampire boots and the master armor gauntlets. Perhaps the black guard hood for when you're not completing a contract or cleaning a home of all it's valuables, just a nice hood to keep the rain and sun off your face. This is the perfect assassin armor IMO.

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I find the entire appearance of the Dark Brotherhood to be a joke in Skyrim. They looked so much better in Morrowind and Oblivion.

My Dragonborn assassinates his targets just fine in Daedric armor. If I wanted to go with a stealth assassin look, I'd probably go with the Nightengale armor.

When I go around all sneaky-like, I always run with a mixed bag of armor. Solitude guard armor chestpiece, Imperial scout's leather helmet, steel imperial gauntlets, and leather imperial boots. But yeah, that armor is awesome.