Pertwee heavily influenced the way his Doctor dressed, and the red-lined Inverness cape he sports was actually a family heirloom owned by his father!
I don't know if the smoking jacket or frilly shirt were also some of Pertwee's own clothes, or stock items, but due to the low budget I am not sure they were custom-made.I imagine that Caroline John's various outfits as Liz Shaw were also bought items, .
Costume Reuse Note: The extras playing Autons in the season's first serial, 'Spearhead from Space', just wear bought overalls and scarves, but notice their silver boots? These are the silver-painted boots worn as part of the Cybermen costumes in 'The Invasion' years earlier!
'The Ambassadors of Death'
Costume Design by Christine Rawlins
Christine Rawlins was costume designer on all episodes of the seventh season; she was also not a fan of science-fiction, which made her tasks of realizing the monster suits in 'The Silurians' and the spacesuits in this serial all the more daunting. The three spacesuits were bespoke-made one-piece jumpsuits made of a quilted fabric, with zippers down the back.Due to budget, the gloves and boots were bought, rather than part of the jumpsuit like a real spacesuit; there also wasn't enough time or money to make a new spacesuit helmet, so instead the costume department borrowed and repainted helmets previously used in 1969's Moon Zero Two.
I don't know if the 'hazmat suits' that appear in this serial were designed and made by Rawlins, or if they were reused from an earlier production, so I have neglected to include them here.
Costume Reuse note #1: One of the spacesuit jumpsuits was later reused in the later serial 'Colony in Space', worn by an extra playing one of the colonists.
Costume Reuse note #2: The futuristic silver jumpsuits worn by the captured human astronauts at the start of episode six; these were originally seen in an episode of Gerry Anderson's UFO).
The jackets worn by the UNIT soldiers in this serial (in all other appearances, UNIT extras wore either outphased or contemporary military surplus) were presumably custom-made due to their futuristic appearance, as well as the seaming having a slightly DIY vibe.
'Inferno'
Costume Design by Christine Rawlins
The last serial of the seventh season only required two costumes to be bespoke-made for the production, the first being the uniform worn by the fascist parallel universe's doppelganger of Liz Shaw; this uniform seems to have been bespoke-made for Caroline John, with a skirt cut very low showing her leather boots. Another bespoke-made costume for the serial was the white nehru-style jacket and trousers worn by Olaf Pooley as the parallel universe's Stahlman, evoking villains of the then-recent James Bond films.Costume Reuse note; The 'radiation suits' in this serial were just 1930s asbestos fire suits; one of the hoods was reused briefly in the later Doctor Who serial 'The Time Monster'.
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