As if Stetsons weren't bad enough, the Eighth Doctor went the whole hog and spent his tenure wearing a party costume based on something worn by notorious gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok. Fans will remember in the 1998 Doctor Who movie that the newly regenerated (and amnesiac) Doctor rifles through the lockers at the morgue in which he awakes and finds several items of clothing, many of which are costumes the medical staff will be wearing to the New Year's Eve party that evening. Among these items the Doctor finds a long scarf (in a nice nod to the classic Tom Baker look), a Richard Nixon mask (imagine how different Paul McGann's portrayal would've been if he'd chosen that costume...), and, of course, the Wild Bill frockcoat and cravat number. While the style is in keeping with many classicists' vision of a Doctor Who costume, it seems silly that the Doctor didn't feel the need to alter it in any way during the course of the film in order to make it more 'him'. Admittedly, the Doctor tries on the ten gallon hat which goes with the costume and decides to forgo it. Something he'll ultimately later change his mind on in his eleventh incarnation. Indeed, McGann later went back and changed his Doctor's look into something more akin to the Ninth Doctor's with a leather pea-coat and an Indiana Jones style satchel. This decision would imply that even McGann himself disliked the costume and fans later got further evidence of just how cool the Eighth Doctor could've been when he made a surprise return in the the 2013 minisode The Night of the Doctor. The main let down with this Doctor's original costume is that it was described on screen as the costume of an entirely different person and thus, it feels like a wasted opportunity to get the eighth incarnation of our hero into something truly unique.
