Hello there!
I hope you are well. Alas, last week, I missed TARDIS Tuesday due to the school concert and great tiredness. I didn't have the energy to think about wearing something Dr Who related that worked for the weather.
I thought I'd go back to Classic Who again and a companion that I have not cosplayed before. The wonderful Ace McShane.
Image borrowed from this Pinterest. Original images belong to the BBC
Ace was really MY companion as a child. I loved her totally. I met the wonderful Sophie Aldred who plays her at Panopticon '98, a Doctor Who Convention in Coventry when I was 16. She admired my turquoise nail varnish and was charming.
Anyway, her most iconic look is her Black Bomber jacket covered in patches and badges but I thought I'd try a less well known look.
Battlefield is my favourite Sylvester McCoy serial- it deals with Morgana and King Arthur- the scary Jean Marsh played Morgana.
In this episode, Ace discards her ubiquitous Bomber Jacket and wears a largely dark outfit.
Here's my version of it. It is essentially a Black trousers, cross over top with a green vest top underneath which is very easy to recreate.
The green vest was from Sainsbury's, the cross-over top was from All Saints originally, but came from my local Sue Ryder charity shop. My black trousers are from Asos originally and I am wearing CBC's shoes.
Image borrowed from Altairsnail blog.
I was delighted to remember this very 80's hair style of having the sides of your hair clipped up with a clip and then a scrunchie. My work colleague gave me this green velvet hair scrunchie for my birthday last year and worked very well to copy Ace's.
The final touch was the earrings. I always remember Ace wearing big dangly earrings. In the gif below, she seems to be donning some sort of trapezium-shaped gold earrings but it is unclear of the exact shape.
I have this pair of lovely gold-leafed oak leaves (charity-shopped of course) which seemed to be my closest match to them.
Gif borrowed from The Fashion of Doctor Who
The funny thing is, as I was uploading these photos, I was watching some Doctor Who interview videos on Youtube coincidentally and Sophie Aldred happened to be on this one wearing a gold-leafed oak leaf necklace. Scroll to 1:40 to see it! How spooky is that?!?!
And here we are side by side. I was quite pleased with this one!
What do you think? If you are a classic Who fan (Bobbi, I am namely looking at you as I know you are the classic Who expert amongst my illustrious blog friends!), do you remember this outfit of Ace's? What about the rest of you?
I almost added my Bessie pin badge which Melanie Folly Bird gave me for my birthday but in the end, I was in a rush in the morning! Maybe next time!?
xx
P.S. Do you have any suggestions for any Doctor Who cosplay or dress up for me to try? I do have lots of ideas waiting in the wings, but it would be interesting to hear from you. And if you wanted to join in at all.
I haven't linked for ages with the lovely Patti at Visible Mondays, so I thought I would do! I feel very visible because this is not my usual look- everyone at church commented on it along the lines of, "You never wear black!"