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>>8645695
That isn't the full equivalent to the orange suit (ACES), the blue suit is stripped down to the bare bones. The portion of the orange suit which corresponds to the blue suit is about a third of its mass (28 lb. out of 92 lb.). Pic related.

They'll probably look more similar in actual use.

The Advanced Crew Escape Suit has a parachute and a survival backpack, including an inflatable life raft. Because shuttle crews were supposed to jump out the door if anything went wrong.

Astronaut flight suits are kind of a joke. None of the Challenger crew jumped out the door, and none of the Columbia crew had their helmets sealed. There's been one case where, theoretically, flight suits might have saved a crew's life, if they were on and worked properly, but no case where flight suits actually did so. People don't like to wear the helmet or the gloves, so they don't, so they won't be on when shit hits the fan. Plus the conditions and failure modes are so extreme that any kind of backup (for any purpose other than continuing generally correct operation) is iffy, even if scrupulously maintained in readiness.

Anyway the Starliner people are obviously trying to make their suit look cool. Hence the pointless decorations. However, it's such an obviously half-assed effort that it ends up looking worse. Rather than "quality that shows" they went with "lipstick on a pig".