Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-33157907-20180601044345/@comment-32765490-20180611161512

The thing is, you're wearing a hood. It's hard to wear a helmet (especially one like is worn by the Uruk-Hai) and a hood at the same time. However, you can obviously wear a hooded cloak and a chestplate at the same time. technically, you do tie the cloak at your shoulders, so it could be considered a chest-slot item, but with the way Minecraft works, if you wore a cloak on your chest slot, you couldn't wear any other body armor.

Thus, since you probably wouldn't wear a helmet at the same time that you would wear a cloak and hood, it's better to make the cloak be a head-slot item.