William Hartnell Style inspiration

You know you read a blog and think that the person is really cool and wish you knew them in real life?!  Meet Melanie, Mel, AKA The Folly Bird, who can be found here who decided to take inspiration from the various Doctor Whos through time to inspire her outfits!  I instantly adored the sound of this idea, so asked her if I could join in- she said yes! I've been mulling it over for a while and after seeing her brilliant Pat Troughton outfit yesterday, thought I'd give it a try today. I've been a big fan of Doctor Who since I was a teenager so it's inevitable that I'd love it!  But you could probably tell that from the Dalek outfit!

I decided I wanted to try William Hartnell first (same as Melanie) as this seemed the easiest! Here's Melanie's one 

Photo borrowed from Mel at the Follybird blog

 Immediately, what is noticeable to me, as to Mel is the obvious pussy-bow blouse idea- dark jacket, generally quite sombre colours!

 William Hartnell was renowned for his Doctor's lapel-grabbing, hence the above gesture.

I went for:
French Connection Pussy bow blouse badly in need of an iron (thrifted)
Gap navy velvet jacket (thrifted)
Black cordhuroy skirt (M&S)
Black heeled shoes (eYe boutique)

It seemed quite strange wearing a jacket for school- it seemed uber smart (as staff members commented!) but as it is velvet, it was more comfortable to wear

Couldn't resist putting my cookie jar in the shot!

And a touch of sparkle in the jet-repro headband.

I hope your day was fabulous!  Mine was fine, though a little tiresome.  I put my football training into practice with year 6 this afternoon and began to prepare my drumming army for the Christmas service at school- we've doing a massive arrangement of I saw three ships come sailing in with drum procession, recorder harmony and each class having a solo!  It's fun processing around the hall whilst making a huge racket!

Tomorrow afternoon spells more fun for Year 4- we're going to be Tudor minstrels and troubadors visiting all the classrooms around the school to sing Hey Ho Nobody at home in hope that they give us money (fake Tudor coins!) and food (grapes!) whilst waving banners and scarves and playing tambours and recorders for drones! I love bringing chaos to the school!