It's been a little while since I have done a Classic Who cosplay and I was inspired by one of my newer cosplaying friends @a_stitchin_timelord who posted a brilliant cosplay of the second and first Doctor's long term companion, highlander, Jamie McCrimmon. His outfit features in my favourite Patrick Troughton story- The Mind Robber. It's a totally mad story in which the TARDIS blows apart and the Doctor and Jamie and Zoe end up in the Land of Fiction trying to puzzle their way out of it!
Here's a little sequence from it.
Jamie pretty much always wears his tartan kilt but with different accompanying garments. In this episode, he sports his red tartan with a black polo neck, his sporran, grey socks and black boots. Earlier in the episode, he sports a sheepskin and suede gilet.
At one point in the episode, his face gets taken away and they have to put his face back together as a jigsaw but they get it wrong so he has a different face for several episodes. The reason for this was that the actor was really ill and they had to film without him so they wrote it into the plot!
who did an amazing version of this cosplay!
It was Sunday morning and I was thinking about TARDIS Tuesday, knowing I was in school on Tuesday but wanting to do a different character. I've been concentrating on Yaz Khan recently, mainly because her outfits are cosplay and good for being at home but I wanted to put something together.
I suddenly remembered Liam's version of this outfit and thought I'd try and put it together from my wardrobe.
I started with my black polo neck number- I couldn't find the higher-necked one I wanted to wear (WHY?) so I wore this Primark one. The Scottish wrap skirt I am wearing was a gift from my Deputy Head teacher at school- she bought it from Greenwich market but has never worn it and it's too short for her so she gave it to me to have if I wanted or donate if not. I was actually going to donate it as I have something similar, but of course it is still sitting in limbo waiting its charity shop trip so I fished it out. I may use it again for some more Jamie!
My vintage 70's sheepskin gilet is is not the same colour as Jamie's but it work as a similar idea.
Grey socks and black boots as well as a black belt were easy to cobble together.
I did think I needed a sporran though so after church (online) on Sunday, I decided to try and craft something that would sort of resemble one from a distance! I grabbed some black and white craft foam and and something. Couldn't seem to find ANY ribbon of the correct colour so I just tied it with embroidery silk round my waist!
As you can see, my sporran isn't particularly effective up close, but it does the job and it was fun to try and put it together and do a bit of sewing!
If I had had my hair cut, I might be giving Zoe's outfit a go next week- hmmm, mainly I can do a fake Bob!
What do you think?
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