There are orange social armour items you can get with open slots. These are, as far as I know, all light armour, but since you can add mods to them, I was wondering if you could, for example, add heavy armour mods to them and use them instead of heavy armour items.
In fact, if you find a low end orange item you like that is the correct armour type, is there anything to stop you modding it indefinitely and wearing it all the way up to 50?