Aldrich didn't wear any armor he was just wearing casual clothes he brought from the real world. A brown shirt and some trousers, nothing too special.
He didn't need any traditional armor anymore, his body was enough for regular swords and arrows. At this point a normal set of plates would only hinder and annoy him.
Of course the story is different if it was a wondrous item or a magic plate.
But that was a difficult request. He didn't know much about the magic items of the nightmare realm but he knew enough about wondrous items.
Grade one wondrous items, have a limited number of usages, they were powerful but exhausted quickly, the counter point was their cheap price.
Grade two items were much more powerful and their power was endless as long as there was a sufficient supply of Ether. The down side was that they require attunement to use them.
