Ok - I got to say this - the appearance of any GI dropping from the new CS and Grottos on a male avatar are just plain humiliating. Looks like cross-dressing a big thing with the Combined. (Not that there is anything wrong with cross-dressing). I'm sorry - I won't ever wear those GIs as appearance on my male avatar monk.
Although all my toons are female all I can say the raid dropped Gi's from CS grotto looks awesome on my fae/arasai But no idea how they look on males sorry ...
The plate armor is kind of nice - it's very slimming on my halfling SK. I can see, however, how all of it would look way better on female toons than on males.
Still waiting for this Gi to make it back into the game. It has been promised for a while but as far as I know it is still not available in the game yet.