TARDIS Tuesday- Vicki Pallister from The Rescue (an Ang collaboration)

 Greetings friends!

Hope you are well!

For TARDIS Tuesday, I thought I'd make a return visit to Classic Who companion, Vicki Pallister and her debut episode outfit from The Rescue.

I last wore it for its debut blog appearance in November 2022

Let's have a look at it:

https://galacticjourney.org/january-10-1965-a-little-breather-doctor-who-the-rescue/

https://www.doctorwho.tv/characters/vicki

Images borrowed from
The Ultimate Guide to the Fashion of Doctor Who

We've got the mini dress with zigzag neck piping,  sort of grey tights and black knee high boots.

One of these days, I will wear this when I've just had my hair cut!

This dress came from a charity shop and then the wonderful Ang added the gold trim for me back in 2022 after we met (when again???!).  This dress is really warm and really easy to wear- it's loose and cosy. I wore this for a trip out to Chelmsford last weekend.  Grey leggings and my charity-shopped Ugg boots (but waterproof biker ones! Well worth the £25 I paid around 4 years ago.) made for a cosy, easy outfit.

Hope you are well!

xx

TARDIS Tuesday- Susan Foreman outfit- the original Doctor Who companion

Hi friends!

I hope you are well! I thought I'd try a NEW companion from Classic Who today for TARDIS Tuesday- one I haven't tried before.  I chose the original companion of First Doctor, Susan Foreman, also known as the Doctor's Grand-daughter!   The was 15 when she first appeared in Doctor Who and dressed in 60's wear that teenagers might wear. 

In her final episode, The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Susan dons a very simple, Audrey-Hepburn style outfit:

https://whatinthewho.livejournal.com/13440.html

https://doctorwhomindrobber.com/2013/06/16/the-dalek-invasion-of-earth/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00y1thx/p00y1t8r

The outfit consists of a black and grey (I presume....as it's in black and white...) stripy top with dark edging and a placket and buttons at the centre. She wears black fitted or capri trousers and perhaps grey pump shoes.

I realised that the crucial item needed for this cosplay was just waiting for me in CBC's wardrobe (that's two weeks this month where I have raided his wardrobe)

The parts that belong to my outfit are my ubiquitous black ASOS trousers that get worn for most cosplays! I added a pair of black suede Clarks originals pumps which I bought at Braintree freeport about 9 years ago for swing dancing shoes.

I decided to recolour my pictures for my side by sides to mimic Susan's posts. I think you will agree that CBC's top is an almost perfect match for Susan's.  The placket is the wrong colour and lacks the same number of buttons but that doesn't matter.

Obviously, I lack the pixie crop haircut and fringe but that's no biggie!

It was fun to try and recreate these poses though I had do a lot of jumping up to the tripod with the sitting pose! Ha!

The moment I post this on Instagram, then that's the moment CBC finds out I stole his clothes again! Oops! 

This is definitely a very ME look (and, I suspect, a very Ang look too- we love our Breton stripes). Who else is up for recreating this look for my 50th birthday celebrations!? Haha!

Hope you are having a lovely day!

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TARDIS Tuesday - Vicky Pallister in The Rescue

 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.

Images borrowed from
The Ultimate Guide to the Fashion of Doctor Who

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?!

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