Can Order armour skins be used by characters from different Orders

TL;DR - You can't change order.

Before and shortly after game release there was rumors that you can change your order becouse of old Wiki page about Order that sayed that player "would be able to change Order with a little bit of effort".

It was written in disscusion on this page this information was mistake and "choice seems to be tied into game mechanics".

Source of this missunterstanding is quotation from Ree Soesbee, GW2 Game Designer who was missunderstanded as she said;

The choice of an order is not compulsory, however, you can’t progress through the full extent of the storyline unless you do so. You can change orders once you’ve chosen one – with a little effort – but parts of the storyline are linked to the orders, so in order to see certain facets of the personal story, you will need to join one. That said, you can play the game without joining one if you truly choose to do so.

But true undesrtanding of this statement was explained few posts later;

You can get through the all major areas in game, but not through the whole story. You can do dungeons/events level up and visit every part of the world - except your personal story will stop progressing.

And;

So I could play 99% through the story (but not finish it) with order A, then switch to order B, and do 99% of its story, and then order C?

You won't be able to do that.

So two things:

First, every character can learn every crafting discipline. You won't even lose progress. The catch is that you can only have two active discipline at once (as in, can craft things with them), and it costs money to switch between them, based on how highly skilled a discipline you're switching into. (If you switch in to a discipline you have no experience in, it's free!)

Second, most untradable items are, in fact, account bound, so you can freely store them in your bank and remove them. I assume the actual Legendary Weapons will bind to a character, but the materials can be passed around willy nilly.

But Crafting in Guildwars 2 is very much its own part of the game. Crafted gear is equal to gear earned from any other number of options, and is not inherently better. The only real "perk", if you want to call it that, comes from convenience.