I thought I'd go with a Classic Who cosplay/dress up this week after a modern Clara outfit for the last post.
The outfit I am choosing is from Sarah Jane Smith, companion of both the 3rd and 4th Doctors, featuring with the 10th Doctor AND with her own spin-offs.
I've featured her 5 times before but the last time she was featured, VIX was the one wearing her outfit
In these two consecutive episodes, The Sontaran Experiment and fan-favourite Genesis of the Daleks, Sarah Jane wears an outfit featuring:
Yellow hooded raincoat
Grey/blue beanie hat
Grey jumper with diamond sort of pattern
Blue knee-length culottes/skirt
Tights
Red boots
This is mainly a closet cosplay except for the jumper, e.g. I didn't look for/choose/buy anything special for the outfit, just riffled through my wardrobe for similar items.
Let's start with the jumper.
I know someone that has a knitting pattern of sorts for the actual jumper who shared it with me but I don't have the knitting skills for it. She knitted her own one and it looks superb!
I found this jumper on eBay for £3.00 after searching for 'Fairisle grey jumper' The shade of grey and the pattern aren't that exact (THIS jumper I found is better but it is £15 secondhand which is too much)
I nicked this beanie jumper out of CBC's raincoat pocket whilst he was out cycling .
My raincoat is from Seasalt and I've had it many years now! It's because of this raincoat that dressing up of this iteration of Sarah Jane has been on my To Do list for years.
I do have culottes but not in blue so I wore my charity-shopped Dorothy Perkins denim skirt instead.
I cannot tell you how many times I retook this pose for the photo as I kept checking back. Everytime SOMETHING was wrong, one hand in the wrong place, looking the wrong way, skirt too high or low, raincoat hanging off the arm too much, covering the jumper too much.
I had to keep hauling myself up off the patio and then throwing myself down and trying to get into position during the 10-second timer!
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Did you see that I attempted a fake fringe? Gave up in the end as it kept flicking up!
Hope that all is well with you!
xx