Costume Bracket: Round 1, Post 29

[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.






Romana in The Creature from the Pit Lalla Ward apparently disliked this outfit. I like it, but it is very obviously designed with Mary Tamm in mind who looked great in long flowing white outfits where Lalla Ward's preference was clearly for more tailored fits.




Zoe in The Space Pirates I like the geometric effect of this outfit.




Steven in The Time Meddlar There is a famous shot of Steven in this outfit, framed against the sky holding the edges of the cloak up like wings - sadly I couldn't find a version of it that would fit in the collage. The cloak makes the outfit, obviously and I'm sure would have allowed Steven to seamlessly blend in to the Northumbria of 1066.




Zoe from The Five Doctors I'm completely torn between thinking it was genius move to decide to put Zoe in bubble wrap as a "homage" to her 1960s futurism look when, presumably, the costume budget for the Five Doctors ran out and thinking "oh come on, even on thruppence you can do better than that!"

Poll #31031 Costume Bracket: Round 1, Post 29

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Which outfit is best?

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Romana in Creature from the Pit
4 (22.2%)

Zoe in The Space Pirates
8 (44.4%)

Steven in The Time Meddlar
2 (11.1%)

Zoe in The Five Doctors
4 (22.2%)

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

[fred_mouse]

I see what you mean on that bubble wrap costume, but also, it is Exactly! the production values I associate with Doctor Who, and thus I adore it unreasonably.

[purplecat]

I'm glad someone's voted for it! It's such an outrageous thing to have tried!

[ffutures]

The Mad Magazine parody of Dr Who in the Sarah Jane era mentioned monsters made out of bubble wrap looking very like the monsters made out of bubble wrap they'd met on another planet, with Sarah saying something like "What does this mean, Doctor?"

To which the reply was on the lines of "It means the BBC are short of money again - watch out for Wombles!"

[purplecat]

The bubble-wrap monster from Ark in Space is probably more famous than this costume - if only because the actors are required to treat the bubble-wrap with horror, but at least in that case they had the decency to paint the bubble wrap green. This feels like they just thought - oh yes! everyone will be wearing bubble wrap in the Space Year 2030.

[liadt]

I wouldn't wear it myself but I went for Zoe's. Romana's outfit is nice, but as you say it's so a Mary Tamm outfit.

[purplecat]

And Romana already has loads of outfits going through to Round 2!

[turlough]

I like almost all of Zoe's outfits. They tend to be fun and very futuristic in a 1960s way and what she's wearing in the Space Pirates is a great example. Her outfit in the Five Doctors is just sad in comparison. I seem to remember reading she was visibly pregnant at the time and that the outfit was designed to obscure this. It might not be true, but it's certainly a very UN-revealing outfit!

[purplecat]

Hmm... it's not _that_ unrevealing. She can't have been very pregnant...