Doctor Who: The Main Inspiration Behind Each Doctor's Costume
8. The Sixth Doctor
Over the first couple of decades of the show, the Doctor's costumes gradually became more bold and colourful, and this approach clearly hit its peak with the Sixth Doctor's garish, multi-coloured garb.
With an assortment of clashing colours and a patchwork design, it's a showy costume that seems like it was put together in a hodgepodge manner, and this is exactly what the designers intended it to feel like.
"Totally tasteless" was the brief that costumer Pat Godfrey worked from, creating some extravagant clothing to reflect the Sixth Doctor's brash and boisterous personality. It actually took Godfrey several attempts to get the costume right, with the initial designs being deemed "too good" and not tasteless enough.
Star Colin Baker actually wanted to go in the opposite direction, ditching the vibrant colours in favour of a simple dark velvet. It's safe to say that he was overruled.