TARDIS Tuesday- Missy

 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.

Image borrowed from Arstechnica

Image borrowed from The Radio Times

IMage borrowed from this Twitter.

Doctorwhotv.com

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

(Type 40) TARDIS Tuesday Birthday special outfits featuring brilliant bloggers!

 I am so excited to share this post!

Welcome to my 40th birthday blog party!  Thank you for coming!

Today's TARDIS Tuesday is the most special one to date as some of my favourite bloggers have joined me to dress up for TARDIS Tuesday to celebrate my 40th birthday!

I am so excited and I have been giggling with glee over their wonderful contributions! I hope you enjoy them too!

If you wanted to join in, put together an outfit and I'll try and add you in later! The more the merrier and you're welcome even if you are late!

These aren't in any particular order of submission - I opened all the tabs and randomly picked on them!

I've linked to everyone's posts with a hyperlink for their names.

First is Vix!  Vix has the most wonderful vintage wardobe so I knew that she would do a brilliant Classic Doctor Who outfit and my money was on her going for either Romana or Sarah Jane Smith (though I do think she'd make a hot Leela too!).

Vix chose one of my FAVOURITE Sarah Jane Smith outfits from The Masque of Mandragora.  

Sarah wears a wonderful patterned dress with a white blouse with a black bow:

I LOVE this so much- her Anokhi sun dress is a BRILLIANT dupe for Sarah Jane's dress (she suspects that SJS's dress IS from Anokhi and she is the expert so I am quite sure she is right!) - her blouse is brilliant from Ayesha Davar and looks amazing with it! Plus she's superimposed herself into all these photos! Absolutely wonderful!

Up next is possibly the blog friend I've had for the longest out of all my still-blogging friends- Sophie!

She chose to dress as Missy- the female incarnation of the renegade Timelord known as The Master! Missy's style is crazy Mary Poppins!

I cannot believe how AMAZING she looks and how much she suits this outfit (and hair!)- she has the facial expressions down to a tee!!!!

This next photo made me laugh so much (with delight) when Sophie mentions she is holding a coaster to emulate Missy's communicator and weapon and her husband mocked her- this is EXACTLY what CBC does to me!!! The facial expression is superb! She was MADE for this!!!

Ang: had a bit of a dilemma as she is moving house in a month and all her costume are boxed up.

She chose Tom Baker's 4th Doctor as her inspiration- his outfit from the iconic  Genesis of the Daleks.

I don't need to introduce Tom Baker's outfit as it is SO iconic!

She borrowed her husband's coat and hat and is using her half-made Weather Scarf (with the knitting needle and a ball of wool stuffed up her sleeve! It's instantly recognizable and I love that her new weather scarf is so suitable! Raiding husband's wardrobe is a great way to go- I've raided CBC's several times!

Plus, the Dalek is ABSOLUTELY GENIUS! Look at it!!!!!!!

Next Fil  had the same super idea as Sophie- the brilliant Missy!!!! 

I cannot believe how much this suits her!!!!

Look at all that sumptuous velvet and the cheeky Missy kiss is a dastardly moment in the episode when this post came!!!

Plus look at excellent purple boots peeping out from under her skirt! I want to see those shoes!!!

Bev chose our earliest incarnation in today's outfit!  The very first companion of the Doctor- his grand-daughter, Susan Foreman!

This is one of the outfits I have in the planning (it's been a draft post for 2 years!) so I am pretty excited to see this one.  Susan's style was schoolgirl chic at times with 60's casual outfits brilliance.

In the Sensorites, she wears a cute pinafore/dungaree dress with a white blouse, cute shoes and knee high white socks.

Bev's outfit is so cute and I love how she interpreted this with her tights and done a mock short hairstyle! This is a great outfit and I definitely want to try this one now!!

Sam very sweetly saw Vix mention my birthday party and very kindly joined in with a photo of her travelling in a TARDIS-like Space-ship! She has a very cool background!! I love having new blog friends, especially ones who like Doctor Who and are sweet enough to join with my celebration!

Ann went for my favourite companion Clara Oswald in this most sought after of Clara outfits- her green and navy Tartan dress outfit from The Name of the Doctor where we find out why she is The Impossible Girl.

Ann chose a beautiful vintage Tartan dress which has all the lovely greens and blues of Clara's dress plus a cute bow to emulate the collar.  Her wonderful shoes are a great match for Clara's ones. I cannot believe how cute she looks in it!!! Love the pose too!

Ivana also chose Clara as her inspiration, her tartan skirt outfit from my post 2 weeks ago.

She has that although the colours are different, the general feel is the same.  I agree- the fitted Tartan skirt plus the fitted black top really does evoke the feel of Clara's outfit and the black opaque tights and black feels are very much in keeping with Clara's dressy look. Ivana looks really chic in this look as she shares one of her wonderful paintings!

My final friend Sheila  chose to be the 11th Doctor- Matt Smith. I knew Sheila would come up with something opulent- I was guessing either fem versions of the 3rd Doctor Who or the 11th Doctor- I knew Sheila would be one of the Doctors and not a companion!

And I was right!

She chose the ubiquitous smart bowtie look at the 11th Doctor- tweedy coat, red spotty bow tie, smart Ankle boots, detailed shirt (with spots) and EVEN a Fez!!!

Underneath, she wore a waistcoat in place of his braces and a wonderful skirt in place of his trousers (I have decreed that when I do this look, I will wear a skirt instead too! I realise I STILL haven't done an 11th Doctor look myself!) .  The 11th Doctor sometimes puts on his coloured-framed glasses when he wants to look clever so even her glasses (unintentionally) are a nod to the Doctor!

The whole look ties in so well together- neat and chic!

And finally here's mine.  I feel decidedly underdressed after all these wonderful outfits!  I was debating what to wear for my TARDIS Tuesday and thinking I should do something dressy and I did debate doing a second outfit that was more dressy ( as I needed to wear something practical as I wanted to go for a walk) but I also had a 40th birthday present that I really wanted to use in my outfit.....so I've gone for quite a casual one this time!

And finally, here's me!

This outfit was worn by Yaz Khan in Demon's of the Punjab.

Image borrowed from the Doctor Who Companion

Image borrowed from Blogtor Who

Image borrowed from the
Ultimate Guide to the Fashion of Doctor Who

Image borrowed from 
My Shiny Toy Robots

She wears a plum sparkly jumper from Whistles plus a Khaki waffle blazer (also from Whistles)

plus black skinny jeans, grey Adidas trainers and a beautiful bee and daisy necklace from Alex Monroe. Plus, during the wedding ceremony, she adds a yellow flower behind her ear. (gutted that I didn't see this birthday shot before I did this post!) 

I managed to find the blazer and jumper a while back (2nd hand of course) and my 40th birthday present (plus Christmas present joint) from my Dad and Stepmum was the beautiful bee and daisy necklace from Alex Monroe.  I added a yellow flower behind my ear and some old Adidas trainers I was given.

I've had SUCH fun putting this post together and seeing the wonderful effort my friends, new and old, have put into this for me. I don't know about you, but I've loved collaborative posts like this, like the Bloggers Art Gallery last Summer- it's fun for everyone else to visit everyone else also!

Thank you blogging friends, for making this such a joy for me!

Lots of love,

Kezzie (Type 40)

xxx

P.S.  If you wanted to submit a late outfit, please just leave me a comment and I will add you to the post this evening!

x