A suit is not a vulgar symbol of wealth, a display of superiority or an expression of bourgeois respectability. It is a beautiful thing. When I put one on, I hope for it to look equally normal and equally weird one hundred years in the past and one hundred years in the future. That’s the meagre dimensions of the sartorial truth I aspire to.

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Capt Jack Harkness:

During Jack’s initial appearances in Doctor Who, Russell T Davies held a “half-hearted” theory that Jack would dress specific to the time period he was in, to contrast the Doctor who dresses the same wherever and whenever he goes. He is introduced wearing a greatcoat in World War II-set episodes, but changes to modern day jeans in contemporary episode “Boom Town” and black leather in futuristic episodes. Davies admits that this was a “bit of a lame idea” and decided that Jack “never looked better than when he was in his World War II outfit”.[104]

Capt John Hart:

He’s got a jacket from fighting in the Napoleonic Wars; he’s got a snakeskin sword from Korea that I think he had to kill someone for; his boots are from Italy circa 1640 and he’s got gun holsters from the American West.“

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