Hi there,
I thought I'd try another Summer spin on one of the Doctor outfits from the Classic Who Doctors.
Today, I am looking at the Sixth Doctor, Colin Baker's outfit. His, is the most garish and costumey of all the Doctors' outfits.
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I've never done a full 'cosplay' or actual dress up of this Doctor but I used it as inspiration twice in
I thought I'd look at the chief components or features of his outfit to take to turn into an outfit using items I already had:
- Checks in either red, yellow, blue hues
- Question mark shirt
- Polka Dot neck tie in either blue or red.
- Clashing patterns
- Green boots with orange spats (black buttons)
- Yellow trousers
And here's what I came up with:
Let's start with the skirt. If I wanted to do a female version of the Doctor, I wanted to wear as skirt. I had 2 prime candidates:
1. Vintage Parisian Dirndl skirt bought from Corbridge Antiques for £5.
2. Seasalt blue checked seersucker skirt (Birthday present)
I tried both on....
The red looked good but I felt like needed more clash in there- it was too coordinated.
Then I tried the blue- but it also felt like there needed to be more red.
I needed something yellow to nod to his yellow and black striped trousers but the only thing that would work was my yellow belt from a floral dress.
At that point, I wondered if I could button both my skirts together to make the outfit a bit more clashing and chaotic. This made the skirt double sized so I had to pin the waistband and I ended up with an extra sort of bustle....which dangled down!
This time, I didn't add a cat brooch- wasn't exactly sure where it was....and, the outfit was fussy enough as it is.
xx