Romana II Cosplay

 So I decided to make up Romana the 2nds outfit from 'City of Death' which if you don't know is from Doctor Who.

Most of it is stuff I already had like the shirt, jacket and hat. I just had to buy the tie (£2 Primark) and make the pinafore dress. I also created the sweets pinbadge using polymer clay.
I know the hat band is wrong colour, and I need the motif on the jacket...but I'm gonna upgrade the outfit bit by bit.

Romana the 2nds Pinafore

Yes I do have a kind of cosplay ADD...can't stop my mind from wandering onto the next project. I'll be sewing regency but thinking doctor who. lol!
Anyway my current cosplay idea is to make a Romana outfit. The first one that sprung to mind that I could gather together with mostly what was in my wardrobe was the one she wears in City of Death.

I have a suitable blazer I can sew a patch on. I can make the sweets badges. I have a suitable shirt and a strawboater. I just needed to make the pinafore and buy some red shoes and a red tie. Easy enough...or so I thought.

 First I draped the skirt. Two rectangular panels, pleated on the dress form. So far so good.

Then I tried to drape the bodice. This wasn't working. Fortunately I had just enough fabric left to make a bib style pinafore.

I found I had to raise the waistline slightly as the 'bib' wasn't quite as wide as it needed to be. I then had to make a few darts in the front bib to make it sit right and not gape stupidly.
I also added some tabs at the sides to help keep the sides from opening too much.

Next part of the costume is to modify the jacket, by sewing on 'patch' and making the badges.

Idea for a Doctor Who Cosplay

Ok so I was looking for a Doctor Who cosplay that would suit me. They needed to be blond, and a girl ideally wearing glasses but that's such a rarity in Doctor Who. After a long serch I came back to my original idea of romana.

 I love her pink outfit from Destiny of the Daleks.

 The boots I could match the style if not the colour. I also have a pink frock coat. I could just sew on some contrast piping.

I could reuse the shirt I made or make a new blouse with pintucks in the front and the ruffled sleeve cuff as in the original. I have my high waist trouser pattern to make the pink trousers. And the scarf is easily sourced...I can sew two normal white scarves together.