This week for TARDIS Tuesday, I had a little help from my friends....and family!
This is a TARDIS Tuesday I have wanted to do for aaaaaaaaaaages.
Vicki Pallister was a companion to the 1st Doctor, William Hartnell and was a replacement for Carole Ann Ford who played the Doctor's Grand daughter, Susan. She first appeared in The Rescue where the Doctor and his companions rescue her from Koquillian, a sinister-looking alien on the planet Dido. However, all is not what it seems, nor is Koquillian....
She wears a cute black turtle neck dress with gold braiding in zigzags on the neck, along with grey tights and black boots. It was seen in Black and White but I found this recolourised picture of her outfit.
I've been seeking the ideal dress in a charity shop for a good few years to adapt for this costume as it is so cute and I want to thank my friend Tamsin and
her incredible blog for alerting me to this cute outfit.
I found a dress that I thought would work for this outfit about a year ago or so in a charity shop but needed to find suitable habadashery itemage. This was found a while back. Then finally, my wonderful
friend Ang, was the missing link between me being too scared to ruin the dress with my appalling hand-sewing (I tried pinning some ribbon but then got scared about how to proceed. When I met Ang 2 weeks ago, I gave her the dress and braid and she very kindly agreed to sew it for me. I wanted to buy some of her
gorgeous decorations (so reasonable, very eco-friendly and beautiful! Do buy some if you can- they are to pay a dentist bill!) so they could travel in a package together. Ang said that the sewing was a good distraction from her sad family news. Thank you Ang for doing this for me and sending it so quickly too! It arrived on Thursday night!
On Sunday, I went to my niece's 12th family birthday party and wore my outfit since I knew there would be ready photographers (plus it's cosy and comfortable.) and ended up having a hilarious photo session with my little sister acting as photographer and director and my Mum acting as assistant to the Director and hair adjuster! We had a really funny time as we worked our way through the series of poses I had pictures of Vicki in.
Enjoy!
I don't seem to have ANY sensible shots with the outfit so enjoy the only one that is semi-complete
Not the most flattering picture but you can see the whole outfit featuring my dress plus some ancient grey Tesco F&F leggings AND some quite old M&S velvet stretchy pull-up fabric boots.
I attempted to recolour the photos in black and white to try and emulate these two ones. A lot of hair tucking in and requests to open or shut my mouth more ensued on the first one. Mum was enlisted to help with the second one. I wish she had put her head up! I didn't realise at the time since I was being made to look the other way. A, my sister, laughed and asked me if my muscles were hurting as I was made to adjust my squat position!
You can see colour a bit more in the scream post. We finally worked out the hand and arm position was behind her body after about 60 photos where my director was not happy with the hand position!
I realise all these pictures make me look hagged and double-chinned but it was so funny taking these, I don't care!
Thank you to Ang, A and Mummy for their help in this one! It was fun to have help which wasn't a grumpy, reluctant CBC who gets huffy after about 2 pictures!
What do you think?!
x
Thats really fun Kezzie! the old Dr Who was the best and they put so much into the costumes - yours looks really authentic! Ref my meal in Chinatown - I had vegetables with crispy noodles (I am a vegetarian) and the men had sizzling beef of some sort and rice and a delicious Tiger beer to wash it all down :)
ReplyDeleteThis is brilliant, I can just imagine you fun you had trying to emmulate the facial expressions. The dress is fantastic, what an amazing job Ang did with that braiding! xxx
ReplyDeleteWonderful, brilliant and all the better for having your mum and sister helping - what amazing memories! I think the dress looks fantastic (yay for Ang, and all the good vibes for the goodness that bloggers pass along to each other!). I feel like you when I look at my zombie pictures (gawds, my jowls!) but you know what, Kezzie? No one else thinks that - we just see you having a hoot with your family and think, "What a fun person! I wish I knew her!"
ReplyDeleteI'm glad it's worked out well, you look great. And thank you for the plug for my Etsy shop! That was very kind of you
ReplyDeleteYou do not look hagged and double-chinned, you look amazing in your dress. Great embellishment by Ang, she's a trouper for sure. I loved William Hartnell as the good Doctor, even in black and white he did a great job and Saturday teatimes were the best when the theme music started up. Well done Kezzie.
ReplyDeleteWhat a cute little dress, and what a wonderful job Ang has done with the braiding! It really looks like a deadringer for Vicky Pallister's. I can only imagine all the fun you've had creating these photos. They are utterly brilliant! xxx
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun dress...and you wear it well! Great cosplay look.
ReplyDeleteCute dress and lovely that Ang was able to help.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you had a lot of fun with your family.
I think you look great ! x
Your family are the best! Sounds like you had a whole heap of fun recreating the scenes and the gold braiding is fab, well done Ang xx
ReplyDeleteThis is lovely! You look great in this dress and the Ang did a fab job with the braiding.
ReplyDeletexoxo
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THIS looks like so much fun. I'm glad your mum and sister were such enthusiastic helpers. The outfit is really cute as well.
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