Hello!
Today for TARDIS Tuesday, I thought I'd do something a bit different. I am featuring an outfit worn by 3rd Doctor and dandy- Jon Pertwee in an episode called The Time Warrior. I did a version of this back in November 2018, almost 4 years ago
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It's such a gorgeous outfit but, you are probably screaming at the screen, "KEZZZIEEEEEE, it's Scorchio maximo out there this week! Are you mad to don this outfit?!"
Well, no. I thought it would be fun to do some Summer spins on some of the Doctor outfits. Rather than trying to do a direct recreation of an outfit, I would use one of the outfits as the inspiration and basis of an outfit that works for the weather.
And here it is:
As you can see, it is a bit different. I will talk you through it.
In place of the Dr's black trousers, I wore a black Broderie Anglaise skirt from Kew (charity shopped for £1). It's perfect and light for Summer.
In place of the green velvet Smoking jacket, I donned a green cardigan from Dorothy Perkins (also charity shopped) as I like to have a cover-up in the hot sun and if I come home late and it is chillier when cycling.
In place of his tan shoes, I wore my tan Mary Jane shoes (they of the hanging-off strap).Also charity-shopped.
I wore the same ruffled blouse I wore last time for this outfit (did you realise it was sleeveless???).
It is charity-shopped Boden and has sublime ruffles! And last time, I was worried about ironing it...well, I didn't bother and I don't mind the effect!
In place of a black/grey bowtie, I wore this beautiful purple St Michael's Lady tie which I charity-shopped a couple of months ago. I could have worn my black version but decided I wanted the fun purple.
The final touch was my Ocarina necklace in place of his Loupe/eyeglass/dangling thing round neck. It is a playable instrument and has the same sort of shape, if rather different!
And that's my outfit!
I WAS going to wear it today for my school trip BUT, I decided to wear something a bit more funky and Tropical for reasons which will become apparent.
I took my school choir and drumming club to another school within our School Partnership group. There are 10 schools within it and we were all invited to bring a 10 minute arts performance of some sort. My head teacher asked me if I had something in mind. I instantly thought of a way to include BOTH groups in one item due to a serendipitous song choice this term. I named our contribution: Tropic Vibes. We performed The Peanut Vendor song by choir which is from Cuba and it was accompanied by Drumming Club on Brazilian samba instruments.
At the end of the song, I got all of the choir (who weren't in drumming club) to form 4 conga lines who then paraded to a Conga riff round the back of Drumming Club who were behind. They then whipped out their coloured chiffon scarves and I got out my Samba whistle and segued straight into a Samba piece with the choir responding to my call and response rhythms with movements with their scarves whilst the drummers played their rhythms.
The children did absolutely fantastically and really did sound impressive! The audience went wild and joined in the movement and call and response patterns and I was super pleased with them! They behaved really well too and we had loads of positive feedback. An Argentinian teacher in the audience told me it made her feel like she was back home. The kids were really happy and thankful for their experience. We loved meeting all the other schools and seeing how different schools approached the brief in different ways- there were 2 expressive dance groups, some violinists, some dramatic poetry reading and the rest songs. My headteacher, who came along with me, was very proud too and has asked us to perform it in Whole School assembly on Friday afternoon in the playground with all the school watching!
Want a bonus outfit? This is what I wore instead!
It was a super day! I didn't have to teach year 1 and 2 all day either which was the BEST part of it!
Hope you are well!
xx
