Costume Bracket: Round 1, Post 22

[purplecat]

Four more Doctor Who companion outfits for your delectation and delight! Outfits selected by a mixture of ones I, personally, like; lists on the internet; and a certain random element.






Ben in The Moonbase I don't know what it is about that shirt, but in my imagination it's a slightly psychedelic combination of pinks and purples. I've no idea what colour those stripes actually are - I suspect pink would have been a bit much for an Able Seaman from the 1960s.




Yaz in Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror What is so awesome about this outfit is that, despite looking like a long skirt it is, in fact a pair of trousers. I've no idea whether it is historically accurate for the period, but it looks great!




Rose in Boom Town I like the scarf and mittens look here. I confess the rest of the outfit is pretty ordinary.




Zoe in The Dominators Oh Dear! The fashions on the planet Dulkis are both odd and unflattering. I'm honestly not sure which is worse the strange pleated material ending at the chest worn by the men or the weird "I've grown out of my dress" look for the women. I'm not sure any companion could have carried this off. Wendy Padbury does her best but it's doing her no favours. Not my least favourite companion outfit, but probably in the bottom ten. If you like it though, please ignore me and vote for it!

Poll #30922 Costume Bracket: Round 1, Post 22

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Which outfit is best?

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Ben in The Moonbase
4 (18.2%)

Yaz in Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror
10 (45.5%)

Rose in Boom Town
6 (27.3%)

Zoe in the Dominators
2 (9.1%)

Vote for your favourite of these costumes. Use whatever criteria you please - most practical, most outrageously spacey, most of its decade!

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Images are a mixture of my own screencaps, screencaps from Lost in Time Graphics, PCJ's Whoniverse Gallery, and random Google searches.

Comments

[turlough]

For some reason I've always imagine Ben's shirt to be green and orange. Which probably would also be Too Much for his character. And yes, the costumes in The Dominators are truely horrendous!

[purplecat]

LOL! I wonder what colour that shirt actually was!

[shivver]

I had no idea those were trousers! Very cool! I used to have trousers like that, back in college. When I was in chorus, our uniform was a white blouse and a floor-length black skirt, and since I didn't (and don't) like wearing skirts, I instead got trousers basically like Yaz's. I don't remember how I got them, though - I probably bought a pattern and sewed them myself.

[purplecat]

I hadn't spotted they were trousers until I rewatched the episode recently - and it was quite hard to actually find screen caps where you could see they were trousers!

[ffutures]

I think split skirts like Yaz is wearing were introduced in the late 19th century for women who like cycling or disliked riding horses sidesaddle. And Wikipedia seems to confirm it.

Culottes can also, in some cases, describe a split or bifurcated skirt[8] or any garment which "hangs like a skirt, but is actually pants."[1] During the Victorian Era (mid- to late-nineteenth century European culture) long split skirts were developed for horseback riding so that women could sit astride a horse with a man's saddle rather than riding side-saddle. Horse-riding culottes for women were controversial because they were used to break a sexual taboo against women riding horses when they were expected to hide their lower limbs at all times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culottes#Culottes_for_women

[purplecat]

I guess they were probably authentic since it's the kind of thing the BBC does well and also I couldn't think why you'd put her in something like that and not make a point of them being trousers unless they were period accurate(ish)

[liadt]

I got groovy with Ben's shirt, although I did like Rose's knits.

I like the Dominator's costume, but the Dulcians def have some of the worst outfits.

[purplecat]

I'm glad Ben's shirt is getting some love - it was looking a bit neglected for a while!