Hello!
For TARDIS Tuesday, I am going to share an outfit inspiration and character that last featured on this blog back on my birthday cosplay party...but it wasn't worn by me!! It was worn by Fil and Sophie! However, I did have an outfit inspired by Missy back in 2015.
Yes, the queen of mean is my inspiration for this week.
For anyone who doesn't know who I am talking about, The Master was a villain introduced to Doctor Who during Jon Pertwee's tenure of Doctor Who. He was a rival, renegade timelord and was the Moriarty to the Doctor's Sherlock. He was played by the wonderful Roger Delgado. He sadly died in an unexpected car accident whilst Pertwee was still the Doctor and the character was not seen for another few years until he turned up burned in The Deadly Assassin with Tom Baker. In the penultimate Tom Baker story, The Keeper of Traken, the wasted character from the Deadly Assassin took over the body of Tremas (anagram of Master!), a Traken man played by Anthony Ainley and he terrorized the Doctor through Peter Davidson's tenure. He disappeared again until the final 7th Doctor Story, Survival where he had become infected with The Cheetah People's something or other. He then appeared in the 1996 movie played by Eric Roberts He disappeared for another decade and turned up in David Tennant's era in the form of Derek Jacobi and then John Simm. Finally, in Peter Capaldi's era, He became She and Michelle Gomez played the bonkers female version of him called Missy!
I'm using the Series 10 version of Missy whose hair is a bit more wild, less-Mary Poppinsesque and her outfit is darker but with Edwardian influences still strongly featuring.
In this version of Missy's outfit from Doctor Who series 10 (in which the Doctor is trying to redeem Missy, AKA, the Master, she wears a variation on her Mary Poppins-esque outfit.
A dark brown paisley blouse with rounded white collar and cuffs, a brown neck bow with red flowers and a dark purple full length skirt and black boots.
I saw an instagram cosplayer share a work in progress version of this Missy and thought to myself, "Hmmm, I could do a closet cosplay version of this without getting anything additional that might work quite well."
And here we go:
I'll start from the very begining, a very good place to start...
Wait, that's the Sound of Music, wrong Julie Andrews film. Hold on, Mary Poppins isn't right either??? Ah, Michelle Gomez, Doctor Who!
I began with my white round-collared shirt from ASOS (which has featured in various cosplays including Romana and Yaz Khan).
Over the top of that, I layered my cappucino-coloured Boden shirt, bought originally, secondhand for my Clara Oswald 60's echo outfit. I tucked its own collar in.
Next, to emulate Missy's neck-tie, I added a black silk with red flowers scarf from Primark.
Yeah, Missy did a dab when she was pretending to be The Doctor in one episode. This being the only time I would do one! The final two clothing elements were my 1970's Droopy and Brown skirt which was given to me by a friend and my black Clarks ankle boots.
I am notoriously bad at HAIR styling and struggled a bit with this but I put my hair in a highish ponytail (as high as mine goes...which isn't very) and then used hairgrips to pin it messily to the top of my head!
It was quite fun incorporating the piano into these photos. Right colour, wrong model, mine being an upright, not a grand piano!
It was quite fun trying to pull slightly manic, slightly evil facial expressions! I'm quite good at those. My A for GCSE drama came from playing a child-killer suffering from Postnatal depression and mania and Satan (modelled from Eric Roberts' Master from the 1996 Doctor Who the Movie), not from nice characters or essays!! Eeek!!!
So, what do you think? Does my version of Missy cut the mustard?
xx
