Feeling Stylish

That’s the question on everyone’s lips isn’t it? With the new season of Doctor Who underway it only make sense to take a look at the fashions of the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors. Claire E. Smith does just that in Feeling Stylish’s first guest post.

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With season 5 in full swing, there is one question on everyone’s mind:
WHO pulls off a better style while saving the Universe?

The Tenth Doctor

Exhibit A: “Modern sort Hair”

WHO Says hair isn’t part of fashion? This Doctor chooses a more casual, ‘I don’t care’ type of look which shows the famous Time Lord confidence. Great for battles on top of a Sycorax ship or the windy shores of New-New York as it doesn’t matter how windy it gets, his hair always looks a perfect 10!

Exhibit B: Long Brown Trench Coat

Long enough to look like Superman’s cape while running. Classic enough to fit in any time period. A wise choice for any Time-Traveler!

Exhibit C: Brown Suit, maybe Blue

Okay! Looked great in the first season. Don’t get me wrong ,love the look and David Tennant pulls it off brilliantly. But with how big the wardrobe in the TARDIS is, couldn’t the Doctor have a little more variety? But with pockets bigger on the inside – who can complain!

Exhibit D: Converse Sneakers

The Doctor will see you now – in style! Converse are a classic look for the modern era on any planet. If only they made radiation-proof sneakers…

The Grade: 9.5 out of 10

The look is timeless, sexy, and very suitable for David Tennant. Only marks off for wearing the same suit in almost every episode. But hey, when you’re busy saving the Universe, who has time to change!

The Eleventh Doctor

Exhibit A: The Hair

More of school boy look or a professor sort of look to me, personally I’m more of a fan of Ten’s hair, but Matt Smith pulls it off giving that ‘nutty professor’ kind of vibe. It also seems to keep well under windy conditions, and it works for Matt! More of a timeless look than modern so it depends on your taste.

Exhibit B: Tweed jacket

The Jacket is really what makes him look like the ‘nutty professor’! Is he a professor, a salesman or THE Doctor? Lose the stolen clothes from the hospital, Doctor! But hey, at least it’ll give Steven Moffat some great material for tweed-jokes! (Jet’s note: Leather elbow patches too, are we in a Fry and Laurie sketch?)

Exhibit C: The Bow-Tie

I don’t care WHAT planet you’re from, do not save the world in a bow-tie! Please! He should listen to Amy Pond and lose the bow!

The Grade: 7.5 out of 10

With a nutty wardrobe like that, Doctor Who fans are lucky Matt Smith is cute enough to pull off any look. I just hope they learn from their wardrobe-don’ts in season two! The hair is growing on me, I can deal with the tweed jacket, but the bow tie is really what is turning me off. He should have kept the Raggedy Doctor look! While Eleven has a fashion-bust, Matt’s natural charms make up for it.

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Claire’s opinions are entirely her own and do not necessarily reflect the views of this blog as a whole. For example: I quite like the bow tie, geek chic. Is that an English thing? -Jet, x

It seems that my want for a nice long walk over the Easter holidays was a bit ambitious. On Friday Ben and I walked 10 miles around the North Norfolk coast. At around the four mile mark we decided to stop for lunch and a pint in a pub in Sheringham. Well, that was a mistake. The rest of the walk was a struggle. I had completely inappropriate shoes on, Dr. Martens. Very not pracitcal for traversing such uneven ground.

The walk finished with a climb up a hill that was all mud. For the first part of the walk I did take pictures so expect them very soon.

The very next day I traipsed round Norwich with family doing some shopping despite pulling a muscle in my knee during the walk. I did however, manage to buy myself some running shoes. £25 Aasics shoes in purple. I’m not running professionally, I don’t need £100 worth of shoes.

Well, I went running yesterday after work. When I ran in my old shoes – Babycham, very impractical – I got pain in my joints, namely my knees and hips. Now when I run all the pain is transferred to my calf muscles. Although, wow it hurts, this must be good. It means I’m strengthening my calf muscle rather than damaging my joints.

I also did a new record for my short route. 1.24 miles in 20 minutes. Roughly 16:50 per mile. My last run I did 17:50 per mile. That’s a good feeling. Next run get it down to 16:30. Small steps or I might kill myself.

And that brings me to Doctor Who. Slightly unrelated. But I wanted to have a bit of a fangirl about it. (*squee* Okay, done.) And to also tell you that I have a fabulous guest post on the way comparing the relative fashion of the two newer Doctors.

Wasn’t Matt Smith brilliant, by the way.

I’m quite a big Doctor Who fan and therefore quite a bit David Tennant fan. I’ve also love Catherine Tate since she was in Big Train. Seeing these guys act together outside of Doctor Who is awesome. They’ve done some fabulous stuff. One of my favourites was a Children in Need skit where Tennant was playing a school teacher. On of his pupils was Lauren (‘am I bovvered’ girl.) I won’t go into the details but Shakespearian and Whovian references are win.

So, I’ve been feeling a bit rubbish today so I thought I’d go on a little fan girl hunt. I found this:

It is a bit off topic but this place needs brightening up.
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