TARDIS Tuesday - The Horns of Nimon Romana

Hi there,

For TARDIS Tuesday, I am featuring Romana for a second week.  Mainly because, when I was putting together last week's look, I spied a garment in the cupboard that reminded me that on my 'To do' list for TARDIS Tuesday was this look from Romana in an episode called 'The Horns of Nimon'.

This is one of Romana's more Doctory looks!

 

 https://theultimateguidetothefashionofdoctorwho.wordpress.com/2017/10/19/romana-ii-the-horns-of-nimon/

It's a great look which has very equestrian vibes and is again, part of Romana's common palette of white and red!

I decided to do a closet cosplay of this, e.g. none of the items are actually obtained for this outfit but  I had anyway.

It's very much an approximation but hopefully, a nod to the original.

I started with the red jacket.  It's a slightly different shade and shorter. It came from Primark and I bought it about a decade ago.

The next garments I selected from CBC's wardrobe.  His Darcy shirt came from the Regency Shirt Co. and I recently discovered that Paul McGann wore this same shirt for his 'Night of the Doctor' 50th anniversary outfit.

I then grabbed his waistcoat he bought for his Newt Scamander outfit for Harry Potter night at his school.  I've used this same waistcoat for 2 of my Yaz Khan outfits as well as wearing his entire Newt outfit for World Book Day.

I knew my eYe Boutique boots would be fine for the boots but the trousers presented me with a problem. I had white linen trousers but they were too baggy. Leggings were too tight so I remembered this pair of mink coloured bamboo trousers that Mum bought me a good few years ago. These have always been an awkward item in my wardrobe- not a flattering colour OR shape for me but they've sort of survived in my legging bag.

So that's the entire look!

If I could wear better trousers, I'd wear this outfit for school but those trousers will never be seen in public!!!

What would you do to improve it?

Hope all is well with you!

xx

TARDIS Tuesday- Sarah Jane Adventures Multiple appearance outfit

Hello friends!

I hope you are well.

Today's TARDIS Tuesday is a mixture of two fairly recent cosplays I shared on here worn by Classic and New Who companion, Sarah Jane Smith, played by the late Elisabeth Sladen. You can see them here and here (where my hair was the perfect length!)

The great thing about this cosplay is that it was worn by the character in multiple episodes AND the separate pieces were worn in other episodes too!

The main three episodes the whole outfit featured were: 

Day of the Clown, the Curse of Clyde Langer and Enemy of the Bane

Let's have a wee look at it!

All  images come from Gretchen's amazing Sarah Jane blog- 

https://sjscloset.livejournal.com/1750.html

https://sjscloset.livejournal.com/10722.html

It's easy to break this outfit down:

Turquoise/pale blue Joseph collared jersey top, Karen Millen pinstripe waistcoat with fake lapels, dark washed jeans, knee high boots.

I really like Sarah Jane's outfits from the Sarah Jane Adventures as they are really smart, have an overall idiosyncratic appearance and work well for school, particularly for performances. I last wore this waistcoat for the Royal Albert Hall concert last year.

And here's my version: 

As you may have realised, I decided to try and imitate Sarah Jane's poses from the stills above.  These outfits as as screen accurate as I can manage as the top half of the outfit has only been IDed- not that I'd be worried about obtaining screen accurate boots or jeans!  FYI, my boots are my eYe boutique ones bought well over 17 years ago- they've been reheeled and the zip refitted.  The jeans are my Clara Into the Dalek ones. They are from ASOS and really comfortable.

The Karen Millen waistcoat has a great back view- I'm planning to wear this outfit on Wednesday for the Primary Choir of the Year competition which I am taking my year 5-6 choir to perform at. If people are going to be seeing at my back view, they might as well have a nice outfit detail! Not, I hope, that they will be paying any attention to me. I will, instead, be wearing a pair of Black pinstripe trousers instead.

The Joseph top is really soft and easy to wear.  It had a really high RRP price as Joseph is a designer brand but luckily I bought mine for about £6.00!

That's a bible in my hand! It matches her book well.

This particular bible has a lovely story to it. When I was studying in Bali, I was craving English reading material.  I mentioned to one of my friends online, that I wish I had brought a Bible with me and my lovely friends Rob and Amy bought one and sent it to me in Bali. I worked my way through most of the Old Testament which I hadn't done before.  Leviticus was hard going!

I'll keep you posted on the Choir of the Year competition. This round is to try and gain a place in the Final in April!

TARDIS Tuesday- Sarah Jane Smith

For TARDIS Tuesday this week, I thought I'd pay a visit to one of the Doctor Who Spin-offs, The Sarah Jane Adventures, featuring Elisabeth Sladen as journalist, Sarah Jane Smith.

In this wonderful children's series which ran for 5 series until Lis Sladen died, she had a trademark look of a blouse or collared top worn with a waistcoat, trousers or jeans and knee high boots.  Often, there would be an All Saints jacket too.

I recently started watching it as it came back onto BBC iPlayer...I'd started watching it a couple of years ago but it was taken off in the middle of my viewing it! 

There were a couple of looks I really liked so I thought I'd have a little bit of a search to see if I could recreate one or two of my favourite looks..

https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/lady-jane-grey-stars-in-the-sarah-jane-adventures/

https://sjscloset.livejournal.com/tag/waistcoat

A wonderful Instagrammer and cosplayer called @GretchenSews created her own blog of IDing and documenting all of Sarah Jane's looks and when reading her blog, I realised there was one item which would be brilliant for creating lots of her outfits as it was worn in loads of episodes...her Karen Millen pinstripe waistcoat.  It seemed a item that would be easy to identify due to the backpanels of grey and the lapels. I also thought it would be a great item to have for an easy way to smarten an outfit for school or concerts.  I had a search and saw a few for lots of money but then found one on Vinted in my size for £15.  I also managed to find a top by Joseph for £5 which was pretty similar to her Joseph tops worn in multiple episodes in multiple colours.

Here's my outfit:

I am super pleased with this outfit. It looks really smart but chic and I feel sassy in it!

I started with the aforementioned waistcoat and top (I would love to find her turquoise one) and added my charity-shopped Per Una jeans as well as my eYe Boutique much-beloved, recently mended boots.

If I change the trousers, this would be a great school outfit!

Hope all is well with you.

xx