Harmy said:
Well, I for one think this picture looks kind of cool. It's a bow to the real world samurai origin of the Jedi. And as to the robes, the Jedi are basically a religious cult - look at how monks dressed hundreds of years ago and how they dress now, practically no change there.
Well, I think it is the color coded metal blades that is the real eye roller there. The robes didn't strike me as too odd for the same reasons you explained above.