Costume Bracket: Round 1, Post 37

[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.






Tegan in Power of the Doctor The jacket is, of course, awesome and I have sympathy with Janet Fielding's desire not to wear anything anywhere near as impractical and uncomfortable as her outfits in the 1980s but still, this doesn't really seems like Tegan's style.




Liz in The Silurians Liz isn't quite the last companion to make an appearance here, but she's the last one with more than one outfit in the set. Here she is rocking her fashionable early 1970s professorial look.




Jo in The Sea Devils Keeping this clean must have been a nightmare but it's a really striking look.




Donna in Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead I've seen it argued that all Donna's outfits are hugely unflattering, but I think there is something about the way she dresses herself up in layers which are slightly fitted, but also slightly shapeless that speaks to the character and her insecurities. I like this outfit for all it is a very typical layer-upon-layer-almost-to-the-point-of-shapelessness Donna thing.

Poll #31225 Costume Bracket: Round 1, Post 37

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Which outfit is best?

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Tegan in Power of the Doctor
5 (27.8%)

Liz in The Silurians
3 (16.7%)

Jo in The Sea Devils
7 (38.9%)

Donna in Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead
3 (16.7%)

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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

[liadt]

Jo is the clear winner for me here, even if it does bring back memories of Stuart Fell's impression of a woman climbing a ladder, oh dear.

[purplecat]

I suspect Fell looked more convincing on a small fuzzy screen...

[summerstorm]

There's something so painfully 2000s about Donna's outfit in that episode that I find somewhat endearing. But Tegan's jacket wins hands down, I want one. (I've only seen new Who and not even a lot of it so can't speak to it being her style or not.)

[purplecat]

Tegan's 1980s look was predominantly high heels and mini-skirts/dresses or shorts. Often unflattering and almost never practical. I think she was the companion who fared worst by the costume designers.

[turlough]

I love Liz's dress! It's both pretty and practical and looks very comfortable too.

[purplecat]

I like to imagine that Liz dressed, in part, to confound the expectations of the stuffy Cambridge professors who were her peers.