My updated 11th Doctor “scales” waistcoat sewing tutorial is now available! 🙂 As with recent 10th Doctor tutorial updates, I polished the text a little here and there so a few things were clearer, but the major updates are primarily the tutorial photos. Unfortunately, I used to photograph everything with flash and never really edited the images, but I still …

Eleventh Doctor costumes are pretty hit-and-miss for me, but I’m particularly fond of costume designer Howard Burden’s work toward the end of Matt Smith’s era – specifically, the “Snowmen” costume and subsequent “7b” costumes. We’ll be taking a look at all three of Eleven’s “7b” waistcoats, as well as his “Snowmen” costume ensemble, here on the blog. In this analysis, …

My updated 10th Doctor blue suit sewing tutorial is now available! 🙂 As with the brown suit tutorial, I polished the text a little here and there so a few things were clearer, but the major updates are primarily the tutorial photos. I used to never really edit the images beyond cropping, but now I have Photoshop; I figured as …

My updated 10th Doctor brown suit sewing tutorial is now available! 🙂 Although I did polish the text a bit so a few things were clearer (etc.), the major updates are primarily the tutorial photos. I used to use the raw photos just as they were directly from the camera, but now I have Photoshop; I figured as long as …

For some strange reason, I hated the 10th Doctor’s blue suit at first … and looking back, I still don’t know why. Maybe I’d just gotten overly attached to the brown one? Then all of a sudden, years later, it just grabbed me, and I’ve adored it ever since. Introduced at the beginning of season (“series”) three, the blue suit …

Even in a show with such a rich history of fantastic costumes, the 10th Doctor’s costume still manages to stand out as instantly-recognizable, iconic, and memorable. As a sharp dresser, obviously a major component – if not the major component – of his wardrobe was his snazzy suit, designed by Louise Page. Although his brown and blue suits shared many …