Doctor Who: 8 Aspects Of Peter Capaldi's Costume Analysed

4. The Shirt

It certainly looks bare to see the Doctor wearing a shirt with no bow tie, but the brilliant white colour looks particularly smart; it harks back to the days of Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee and Davison, who all also wore strikingly white shirts. And similarly to the Classic Doctors, it looks like Twelve's going for a more pointed collar. Fashion's dictating that the cutaway collar becomes more popular - Smith's shirts were halfway between the two - but Capaldi's collar looks very traditional; it's a good job too that it's not covered in those silly question marks. A lot of people imagined a frilly, Edwardian shirt, but again, Capaldi's luckily rather modern in that respect too. "He's woven the future from the cloth of the past," the new Time Lord claims, which may suggest why it's just a classic, cotton white shirt, but it's also still fashionable in 2014.