question about quarian suits

So, thinking about BYO approaches in the Omnitool thread I was asking myself this and I thought hey, maybe I could ask CDN about it. Ih it's not considered offensive, I'm just curious.
So where do you quarians get your suits from? I mean, are there quarian companies who sell or customize these things or is this all done on a do it yourself basis by each individual? I seriously have no idea how that works but I’d be curious to hear about it. I have seen a suit repair shop in Little Rannoch once but I am not familiar enough to judge if there’s an industry or something similar behind it. A lot of parts looks fairly standardized to an outside observer tbh.

Market's pretty small for most companies to dedicate themselves to the manufacture, odds are a lot of them can do it on special order though.

We get our suits anywhere we can find them. There are no corporate interests that found anything valuable in appealing to the Migrant Fleet, neither were there the means to mass-produce on our own. I would say that we 'do-it-ourselves', but suits are made communally. We'll convert any envirosuit we can, if possible, to accommodate our needs. Turian suits are preferable for this reason, but any suit tends to do. The only thing that we make ourselves are our masks. We build our filters to rather exacting specifications, so a direct hand is necessary to ensuring they meet them.

Our suits resemble our ships, in other words. We take what we can get, and many suits among the quarian population have histories that can date back to the Morning War, even if there is very little left of them that resembles what they once were. Parents will pass their old suits onto their children. If there is a hole, we will patch it. If the sum of three ruined suits is a whole one, we will stitch them. It was not perfect, nor entirely sanitary, but compromises were a reality of the fleet. For instance, we've often resorted to flash-converting volus pressure suits for our children.

More recently, we've had the advantage of our reopened factories on Rannoch to accommodate our needs.

And to add on to what Inquiry has said about the factories producing the suits, the ones coming out from them are significantly better than the ones we did have while we're on the fleet, especially with around 300 years of theory being put into practice with them, and from a few rumours I heard we're not just going to be limiting the production of such suits to ourselves (Unless it's the milspec ones.)

They steal them.

There used to be an artisan studio in Nos Erra where Ana got custom suits made - all the scary-looking (amazing) ones. They weren't quarian suit manufacturers as such, but they could do the hardware to the necessary standards, and she wasn't their only quarian customer (although I gather most of their other quarian work was more everyday). Sadly they're out of business now; there are a few manufacturers around who've got the specs on file and will do sets or components at need, but they just do regular suits, not artsy ones; luckily we didn't lose the fancy ones during the war. That said their work is up to standard, Ana's got a couple of pieces from one based not far from here, Enzak Precision Technology, and had no problems.

There's a company on Calabsa that's offering custom-made components (Stellar Echo, they're called), we're going to give them a try with an order for some racy boots next time we're in the market for a luxury.

The components, mostly, aren't all that different from standard hardsuits, and aren't too difficult to come by. The only tricky stuff is basically the headgear, which is small enough that we've always been able to manufacture it ourselves, and the boots or greaves or whatever you wear depending on the model and your preference, which obviously have to fit our very peculiar feet. The rest is easy.

Its also not exactly uncommon for older suits to be recycled and passed around. Which gives you odd sights like a quarian wearing a rather recent suit surrounded by ones wearing bulkier (and uglier) ones from years ago.

I can't remember the last time I saw a suited quarian that wasn't wearing a Sulba 55-S.

It makes sense, I mean... it was popular for a while and available everywhere in its hayday... I suppose quarians just built more using that template? They're just so ubiquitous now.

... which is a problem for me because I can't see them without remembering that song from the add campaign. Tah-Tuhl-Say, anyone?