TARDIS Tuesday- Summer 5th Doctor outfit

HI there!

I have enjoyed my last 2 Summer spins on the Classic Who Doctors.I hope you did too!

Today, I am considering baby-faced 5th Doctor, Peter Davison's outfit.

I last looked at this outfit as inspiration in April 2021- here I did a literal cosplay and recreation of the outfit but this time, I wanted to do a Summer spin on it. Therefore I was using it as inspiration rather than a direct recreation.  I have actually done a Summer version of this once before (back in 2015 which you can see here) and I used the same base-dress.

Let's look at the original:

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

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

And this time, I have created two versions of it with one garment difference:

 

Here's the first one: I started with the obvious item- my Question mark shirt (embroidered by Ang) which I wore for my 6th Doctor outfit last week. As I said last time, the shirt is lovely and lightweight. I rolled up its sleeves for a more summery look.

The next item was my vintage dress bought back in 2015 or so.  I loved this dress. It's handmade and I definitely get cricket jumper vibes from the patterning around the neck and hem. Do you agree?

I added my handmade celery brooch (made from Shrink plastic in 2015). Yes, it looks more like Chard.

I wore CBC's LilyWhite's genuine Panama hat (which I bought from Oxfam for him 7 years ago or so) and added the same red spotty scarf I wore round my neck last week for the 6th Doctor outfit.

Here's the second outfit. Spot the difference!

This time, I took away the white shirt (I could have kept it on but I think in the Summer, it would be a bit too warm with both the jacket and the shirt. Instead, I wore my Whistles blazer which I bought for £4 for my 5th Doctor cosplay. It has ties but I tied them loosely inside the blazer. Celery was repinned.

I wore my Toms Huarache shoes- couldn't wear my white brogues as they are in school (spare shoes) and didn't think that the white Converse high-tops would work so well.

I think I like this outfit better out of the two, but what about you?

xx

TARDIS Tuesday- Sarah Jane Smith- Pyramid on mars

Hello!

TARDIS Tuesday is tardy once again!  I've returned from 10 days in Greece.  We had a lovely time in Corfu and then Northern-mainland Greece, in the mountains & Meteora for most of the time. I apologise for not commenting since being away. It gets very frustrating typing comments onto a small device with two fingers and with bad connections so I didn't manage to comment during Downtime. I will try to rectify that soon!

I thought I'd have another go at another Classic Who cosplay today

Image borrowed from Pinterest but it belongs to the BBC

This is Sarah Jane Smith.  She was a reporter who joined Jon Pertwee's third Doctor in an episode called The Time Monster and then she continued through to the Fourth Doctor- Tom Baker.  She returned to meet David Tennant's the Eleventh Doctor twice in two episodes and even had her own spin-off in Classic Who called K9 and Company AND in New Who- The Sarah Jane adventures.  Thus she is Doctor Who royalty. She's always somewhat reminded me of my Mum somehow!

In this episode called The Pyramid on Mars, she sported this rather period looking outfit of High necked frilly Leg Of Mutton blouse and a full-length white skirt and looked rather fetching!

And here's my take on it!  I know the blouse is the wrong colour and the sleeve length is different but somehow, it has the two diagonals that the original blouse has plus the leg of mutton effect and high neck.  My blouse is vintage and has featured many times over the years on here. 

The skirt is more frilly than Miss Smith's one but has the right effect and colour! It was from Per Una and was the most exquisite birthday present from my Dad and Step-Mum about 5 years ago! It is so delicate and pretty!

Image borrowed from Copperbadge Live journal.

I decided to get create with poses and sought props in the garden shed.  I tried a fork at first but decided on broom in the end!

Gif borrowed from Giphy.com

I thought I'd find a close up so you could see the details of her blouse and mine.

What do you think?  Do you think it works for Miss Sarah Jane Smith?

xx

TARDIS Tuesday does the Sound of Music!

Howdy there folks!

Technically, this will end up as TARDIS Wednesday but how sadly unalliterative! 

Sometimes, I will put an outfit on and know it looks horrible! This morning, I knew that today's TARDIS Tuesday wouldn't win me any style/fashion prizes but I always carry something through to its conclusion.  CBC took one look and me and said, "You are going to wear THAT???" 

At school, I was told I looked like I was wearing an Austrian traditional costume (Dirndl, I presume they were implying!). Presumably I resembled a horrid curtain-bedecked runaway extra from the Sound of Music.

Not my finest hour.

"But..." you gasp, "What does this have to do with Doctor Who????"

Come closer and I shall tell you.

 Let's adopt a snooty pose?  Familiar?
No, ok, then I'll explain.

The Sixth Doctor, Colin Baker, was my inspiration  for today.  He was in fact my TARDIS Tuesady inspiration a while back where I debuted my Ang-Almond customised Question mark shirt. His lurid coat has always made me think of my Vintage Madras-checked dress with its rainbow of colours and the checks and the crossover neckline reminding me of a waistcoat.   If it was cooler, I'd have added the aforementioned shirt underneath but it being too hot, I added a pussy bow blouse instead which is a nod to the bow tied at his shirt neck.

Image borrowed from Tansyrr

The best part of this outfit is one you can only notice close up.   Colin Baker always wore a cat brooch on his lapel. In fact, these were his own, not the costume department and was his own eccentric addition to the outfit. He had several.

In my recent experiments with shrink plastic celery brooches, I also made a white cat brooch as my second attempt. I was quite pleased with it- it's quite plump!

The final touch was adding these red polka dot ballet pumps from Primark. I've had them ten years and I adore them- I'll be gutted when they finally die.  They are a nod to the polka dot necktie as he did sport a red spotty necktie in later episodes.

Outfit details:

Madras check dress: M&S via Charity shop

Unironed pussybow blouse: French Connection via Charity shop.

Shoes: Primark 10 years ago.

Cat brooch: made by me.

Earrings: Cath Kidston

So...over to you. 

Are you sporting some cobalt (obvs called TARDIS blue), do you have a cat brooch or feel like attaching celery to your bosom?  Fancy doodling question marks over your vest or wearing a Clara Oswaldesque Topshop dress?  Then this is the link for you...

Linking to Claire Justine's Creative Mondays

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Presenting Miss Perpugilliam Brown

I was a child of the 80's.  My first Doctor (Who obviously! Do you think this is some kind of hypochondriac blog!?) was Colin Baker, the 6th incarnation of the Doctor.  One of my earliest memories of TV was the episode in which his long-suffering companion, Peri, short of Perpugilliam Brown is killed.  I was devastated! I loved Peri.  I have vivid memories of the scene in which she was operated on by the evil Doctor Crozier so her mind was taken over by the horrid Kiv and when King Ycarnos seemingly gunned her down.  Luckily, all was not what it seemed in Mindwarp part 8 of 'A Trial of a timelord'.  Incidentally, this was the first Doctor Who video I was given as a teenager. If you want to see a summary of the episode, click here. Anyway, in her final outing, Peri, who was renowned for wearing rather revealing outfits, actually wore something a little more covering, in the form of a purply patterned tunic and kimono.

Image borrowed from https://michaelnixon.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/1986-mindwarp/

Image borrowed from http://www.ew.com/

The look has a decidedly hippy-vibe to it.

As always, TARDIS Tuesday is an interpretation of something from Doctor Who, rather than having to be an exact cosplay (much as I love those!) so I am demonstrating here, with a bit of context and a certain degree of tenuous rhetoric, you can link an outfit to Doctor Who that you might not otherwise realise was inspired as such.




I bought a delightful paisley and floral purple tunic in a charity shop in Ipswich with 2 blogging friends (ahrgh, I WILL blog about that soon!) and it suggested to me that it had a Peri Mindwarp vibe to it.



Of course, it was a floral garland kind of day, so I matched that in too. Peri wore some sort of purple beaded headband in another episode which I can't find the reference for right now.

Yes, I know that it isn't really THAT Peri-ish! But you know, I was inspired!


Now it's your turn. Been at the fancy dress box again and worn a Panama, fez or Fedora, been wearing a cricket jumper, stripy scarf or been at Clara's Topshop collection!? Or perhaps you've sported some TARDIS blue in your outfit post. Come and join Maricel, TARDIS Tuesday founder and me, her humble assistant (rather like the Doctor and his companion! Ha, that makes me Clara!)
with TARDIS Tuesday.

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