Costume Bracket: Round 1, Post 54

[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.






Rose in New Earth I really like this pink top, but I'm less certain about the blue jacket that goes with it.




Barbara in The Aztecs This is another early historical where a lot of attention was paid to costume and set design. In this case Barbara's outfit as the reincarnation of the high priest Yetaxa.




Rose in The Unquiet Dead I assume this outfit is historically accurate - because BBC - though it's always possible the costume designers were aiming more for what Rose might think Victorian dress looks like. Whatever the case, it's not what I would have chosen for Cardiff in December.




Romana in The Ribos Operation Romana starts as she means to go on in a stunning flowing robe. I don't think she ever wore anything quite as impractical again, but this look defined her.

Poll #31510 Costume Bracket: Round 1, Post 54

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Which outfit is best?

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Rose in New Earth
1 (5.3%)

Barbara in The Aztecs
7 (36.8%)

Rose in The Unquiet Dead
1 (5.3%)

Romana in The Ribos Operation
10 (52.6%)

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

Voting will remain open for at least a week, possibly longer!

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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]

Much as I love Barbara's fabulous headdress in The Aztecs, I'm voting for Romana anyway. That outfit is so iconic. And the feathery over-thingy with its hood is to die for!

[purplecat]

The hood definitely finishes the outfit off!

[vivdunstan]

Well I was about to vote for Rose in the Victorian frock, then scrolled down and saw Romana. Getting a sense of deja vu here!

[purplecat]

I think there are going to be a lot of Romana outfits in the later rounds...

[thisbluespirit]

I can't remember where Rose and Nine were going in that ep without going to check, but the Doctor got the destination and the year wrong, so it was more appropriate for the original destination, like several other instances in the series(es) across the years!

I had to vote for Barbara and her epic goddess outfit, although Rose's Victorian get up is gorgeous and would probably otherwise have edged out even Romana's white dress.

[purplecat]

You could be right about the Cardiff outfit - in my head she goes back to change, but that might be a different story and companion.

[thisbluespirit]

We are both right - I checked the TARDIS wiki and the Doctor does tell her to change, when they're inside the TARDIS, so she goes to wear something suitable for Naples in 1860, but it's after she changes into that outfit that they go outside and he realises it's Cardiff in 1869.

[purplecat]

So nice that we can both be right on the Internet!

[ffutures]

I've always regarded Romana's costume as her Servalan (Blakes 7) tribute. Servalan, of course, was described as producing "a sexual awakening for a generation of sci-fi fans" in Jacqueline Pearce's obituary, and you'll get no argument from me.

[purplecat]

Same costume designer - if I'm remembering correctly so the similarity is probably no coincidence.

[ffutures]

OK, that makes sense - thanks!

[scifirenegade]

Voted Barbara, not because I have a bias or anything (cough) but Jacqueline Hill was fond of the costume and thought the headpiece was lovely (even if difficult to keep on her head).

[purplecat]

I think its definitely on of the more memorable historical costumes.

[a_cubed]

Three stunning outifts here (the first Rose one is blah). Hard to choose but I went with Barbara because it's the first time I've seen a colour still of that, though I've seen the story a couple of times.

[purplecat]

It's one of those stories which I don't rate as highly as a lot of fandom does. I find Susan and, to a lesser extent, Barbara's actions rather stupid and that annoys me.