It really frustrates me that Moffats female companions don’t wear pants
Are you kidding me? What is wrong with wearing skirts and dresses?
People always act like Amy only wears skirts… which is really, really wrong? I mean, she does have a fair number of miniskirts, but you also often just get to see her in jeans.
And River wardrobe includes dresses (TToA, TPO, TATM), but she also gets a lot of practical, not necessarily “feminine” clothes (TToA/FaS, TPO/TBB, SitL/FotD). She really dresses for the occasion – and if that’s military clothes or a space suit, then it’s military clothes or a space suit.
It’s really Clara who we’ve yet to see in trousers – and as someone who’s bought half her wardrobe: Why would she? She looks absolutely fantastic, and it’s all really comfortable to wear.
(As a most-of-the-time British English speaker I think they all wear pants, but that’s an assumption I can’t exactly prove.)
This so much, especially the bit about Clara and owning half her wardrobe :P
But on that note, Clara’s wardrobe says quite a bit about her. It’s very put together, and she has a definite style that she sticks to – fitted dresses (with a little bit of twirl in the skirt) and biker boots. It’s her armour, it’s her dressing like she’ll be picked up for an adventure the very next day. Which, of course, she knows is going to happen, and as someone who’s dreamed of adventure all her life, she wants to make it as perfect as possible, that includes dressing like a heroine.
Amy does like her mini skirts (and just generally fitted clothes). They give off an image of confidence (after all, why would you wear a mini skirt if you didn’t think you could pull it off?), which is something Amy is lacking in early on, so she does her best to fake it – by dressing in a confident manner, by being overly flirty and sometimes abrasive. This is toned down slightly over her arc as she grows in inner confidence and doesn’t feel the need to fake it anymore. Amy’s arc can be seen in many areas, and her clothes are just one of them.
I also think you can write similar styles of things about the fashion of every companion, not just those of RTD.
Wearing the clothes you want to wear is not wrong, and both Amy and Clara’s (and River’s) styles fit with their characterisation, and I really love that extra layer we get to the characters.
It may be worth pointing out that Amy originally started off in trousers:
But Karen Gillan had lots of input into her costume, and she thought Amy would prefer miniskirts.