13's Outfit revealed!

[Christopher]

*sigh* Sincee we've entered the realms of the pedantic; she was wearing an outfit that is clearly meant to be suggestive of Capaldi's. Unless you think it was a complete coincidence?

The point is simply that this wasn't a post-regeneration clip as some people seem to assume, but a specially made video to introduce Jodie Whittaker. The priority behind the wardrobe was simply to delay the reveal of the fact that the new Doctor was a woman. I'm not interested in splitting hairs beyond that.

 

[Qonundrum]

Oh, another reason for my piping up with "Atari breakout" - the new Doctor is breaking out of an old mold. I try not to give away deeper interpretated meaning, but this time - why not?

The following is a drawing supposedly by the productions' costume designer. (I say "supposedly" because this is not the drawing's original URL. If it were on the BBC website or some other spot that could be more readily identified as "official", I would doubt it less.

http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171109/040a50567059f5052e3595992a7fd39a.jpg

Regardless, it depicts all the elements present in the publicity photo and Whittaker's physique has not been given impossible comic book heroine proportions. Point being, while in motion, rather than standing "ramrod" stiff as in the photo, this ensemble will likely look even more intriguing.

The blue overcoat alone makes a world of positive difference, as does the orange piping between blue shades.

I never liked the question marks on the JNT-era Doctor costumes. Too cutesy and self-conscious. They came along at a point where all the mysteries of the Doctor had pretty much already been solved, so it felt like an attempt to replace them with a superficial reference to the idea of mystery. And they really got out of hand by the McCoy era.

Warm, one would hope...

(And are ankle scarves actually a thing? Wouldn't you trip?)

Tom Baker occasionally tripped over his scarf...

Yeah, the ???? marks were ??¿?-overkill. Then they got to McCoy and redefined "overkill" to a supernova-sized level... and people think the 6th Doctor's coat was bad? That was at least original and replacing yellow trousers with black ones would have been far better... oh well, it's not 1985 anymore.

Well, colour me critical. She'll probably pull it off just fine when the series gets going, but on first impressions all I'm seeing is Rod, Jane and Freddy.

It also looks like a costume, not an outfit.

Ditto, pretty much. How it works in an motion video environment will make a difference. Even the 6th Doctor's technicolor puke coat had!

I don’t like it. Looks like they just picked up random pieces. They should have made it similar to her debut outfit. Oh well. Maybe she’ll get an outfit change.

Some on DVDs always say "the Doctor should pick stuff randomly". Now I see why none of them really would. Even for the 6th.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

Well, remember when Matt Smith was introduced and the BBC gave us this as a first picture?

Mark

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Well, remember when Matt Smith was introduced and the BBC gave us this as a first picture?

Mark

Yes, but they also specifically said that wasn't his outfit, whereas this one is The Thirteenth Doctor's outfit.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

Granted, but it didn't keep a legion of Whovians from not reading the Beeb's post about that and automatically thinking it WAS his outfit. "OMG, a Dark Doctor, at last!" et.al.

Mark

 

[The Nth Doctor]

And then they turned around and burned down the barn when they saw his actual costume, hating the elbow patches and bow tie.

 

[Butters]

And wasn't Smith's outfit supposed to be more Pirates of the Caribbean inspired until Matt designed what we eventually went with?

 

[Samurai8472]

https://twitter.com/HQCelebCorner/status/929071610354597888

Jodi spotted wearing the 12th doctors costume

 

[The Nth Doctor]

And wasn't Smith's outfit supposed to be more Pirates of the Caribbean inspired until Matt designed what we eventually went with?

Yeah, it was. I'm sooooo glad Smith completely changed it.

 

[Starkers]

Yeah, it was. I'm sooooo glad Smith completely changed it.

Yeah it's just impossible to imagine him dressed any other way (much as I love him to bits I never did love the Victorian look as much as the absent minded professor look)

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

https://twitter.com/HQCelebCorner/status/929071610354597888

Jodi spotted wearing the 12th doctors costume

Getting off-topic, but I guess this means the new Doctor doesn't have time to get into a new outfit before getting down to business. One wonders if the new wardrobe will come FROM the TARDIS wardrobe, or be thrown together from whatever she finds on the way, like Smith did. Man, I miss me a classic wardrobe suit-up scene on this show.

Mark

 

[Starkers]

Getting off-topic, but I guess this means the new Doctor doesn't have time to get into a new outfit before getting down to business. One wonders if the new wardrobe will come FROM the TARDIS wardrobe, or be thrown together from whatever she finds on the way, like Smith did. Man, I miss me a classic wardrobe suit-up scene on this show.

Mark

How often did we get that though? We didn't have it with Tom, and Davison's outfit was creepily already laid out for him (courtesy of the Watcher?) Eight picked his up from the hospital (as did eleven) and we didn't see Chris of Capaldi choose their outfits. I guess the only modern Doctor we've seen in the Tardis' wardrobe room was Tennant.

I would really like to see her pick a few things out and discount them, as others have said chancing upon Tegan's stewardess outfit would be amusing.

 

[sttngfan1701d]

I like everything about it. I never wanted a woman as 13, but I said that they've never put a foot wrong....and so far, so good. She looks great. Awesome outfit. It looks like something an extra from season 2 of TNG would wear...and I love it.

 

[Christopher]

Getting off-topic, but I guess this means the new Doctor doesn't have time to get into a new outfit before getting down to business.

Or maybe the photo is from the day they filmed the post-regeneration scene. We don't yet know where the event will take place. Maybe Whittaker is on her way to film it, or just coming from filming it, in that photo.

Davison's outfit was creepily already laid out for him (courtesy of the Watcher?)

The reason it was already mostly assembled is because it was basically just a set of Edwardian cricket whites, albeit a bit fancier. That's what was eccentric about it, that he essentially wore a sporting uniform as his everyday garb. As we saw in "Castrovalva," first he found the whites in a changing room full of cricket gear, and then, while he was admiring his batsman's form in the mirror, he noticed the panama hat and beige jacket hanging on the hat rack next to it, and decided to add those to complete the ensemble. So it was a blending of two unrelated sets of items. And of course, the final touch was the celery stalk, which he came across later.

The fact that the Fifth Doctor basically went around dressed as an Edwardian cricketer all the time is the reason why, when he arrived in Edwardian England in "Black Orchid," he was mistaken for someone who'd come to play cricket.

 

[Mr Soak]

Which is also in reference to W.G. Grace, who is a famous amateur cricketer from the late 19th century. He was medically qualified, so was known as The Doctor.

 

[The Wormhole]

Getting off-topic, but I guess this means the new Doctor doesn't have time to get into a new outfit before getting down to business.

Don't read too much into that. Capaldi spent his entire first day of shooting wearing Matt Smith's costume, and yet he spends less than five minutes of screen time wearing the outfit in Deep Breath.

 

[Ithekro]

My greatest worry is how the NEXT Doctor will fit into that when he regenerates in.

Mark

That could actually be hilarious...even if the next doctor is a woman....if she's rather tall (like Amy Pond tall).

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

If the Doctor after Whitaker is a man, it'd be VERY funny to see him in those clothes.

 

[Lonemagpie]

If the Doctor after Whitaker is a man, it'd be VERY funny to see him in those clothes.

It will be, and it will be!

 

[Christopher]

My greatest worry is how the NEXT Doctor will fit into that when he regenerates in.

Didn't I read that Capaldi learned he'd be succeeded by a woman when his tailor told him that his Doctor pants had been ordered in a woman's waist size? I think they resize the clothes to fit the next actor regardless of realism. It's sort of like Hulk pants.