Quote Originally Posted by Kardwill View Post
It's been done, though. Look at the Mass Effect series. In #1, all characters use spacesuits with full helmet when doing missions in dangerous environment, and are in full body armor while in combat. These ARE form-fitting armors with boob plates, sure, but they don't look too much out of place.
And then theres #2, where you find characters fighting almost nude or with deep-cleavage chestplates and where several female character's "spacesuit" (Jake and Miranda) consist of revealing clothes with lots od skin exposed and a flimsy mouth-and-nose mask, when their male counterparts wear full bodysuits with helmets.
Sure, and these spacesuits with uncovered skin all look really stupid. It's one thing when you've got something like the Guardians of the Galaxy spacesuit - a translucent energy field fits the setting, and there's still something there, even if the something in question doesn't match up with actual space suits in any way. Similarly, there's plenty of science fiction with skin tight space suits with small helmets, which also work and do a decent job conveying that the culture behind them has been in space long enough to make more minimalist designs, and those work. It's when you've got a space suit that fails in function so bad that it's just not plausible as a space suit no matter how far one stretches their disbelief that it gets really dumb, and the same thing applies to armor*.

*Among other things - there are certainly other pieces of a material culture that can be screwed up so much that it is just jarring. Stupidly oversized weapons often fit in this category, and there are some sci-fi vehicles that are hilariously bad.