We know the doylist reason behind Momo, Ochako or Tooru's costumes but I find their incidental in-world implications just as unsettling.
15-year-old girls know that sexually marketing their body makes them more likely to succeed as a hero. The hero industry and society pressure them to. Newcomers like Mt. Lady show them that it works. I can see why someone in Ochako's position might hesitate to request changes to the support company's* "choice costume," even if it makes them uncomfortable.
*I know UA works with at least two different support companies but since they are only differentiated by the easter egg in Katsuki and Ochako's costumes, I've decided to treat them as a homegenous one.
A seperate ranking for "sexiest female hero" and pros like Midnight emphasizing the necessity of sex appeal on live television intensify that pressure, both for the girls and from the people they're supposed to appeal to.
Other types of pressure are less overt and more personal and humiliating.
The support company supplies Katsuki with explosion-proof gloves; he doesn't even have to ask. Mirio, who, before Nighteye, wasn't even a top promising student, gets a scientific-miracle suit through his own hair.
When "repairing" Izuku's tracksuit and plastic mask costume, the support company changes the design to be cooler and the materials to provide more safety and comfort (like the sturdier mask with added breathing holes) and adds several protective reinforcements.
Tooru, a female hero student with incredible potential, gets nothing. She repeatedly worries about being invisible [in the eyes of the public] and much of her personality revolves around making herself seen to others. She would have clearly loved a costume similar to Mirio's that she could turn on and off.
Momo, the daughter of some of the richest people in the country, gets a bathing suit that accommodates her quirk in nothing but design. It offers no protection and falls apart at the slightest rupture. This is insane because, by the time Momo enrolls, UA already has a student with a costume that turns permeable at will.
It's anyone's guess whether Tooru or Momo asked for something better and were rejected or whether they already internalized that they shouldn't expect the same level of accommodation as their male peers.
Again, support companies exercise a lot of autonomy in adapting and improving students' costumes. The options and the technology exist, they're just not offered to the girls.
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