Originally Posted by
Scorpina
Oh, I know that Colin Baker's costume wasn't the first eccentric one, but it's widely accepted as the most ridiculous costume The Doctor has ever had, and the most 'abnormal' since - while, say, the First through Third Doctors wore out-of-period clothes, they wore things that people would - at some point in human history - have been seen dead in. Colin Baker's coat was not such a thing (nor, for that matter, was Tom Baker's scarf, but obviously that was much more forgivable and suggested 'lovable eccentric' rather than... whatever the hell the Sixth Doctor's coat suggests).
I still really like The Fifth Doctor costume, however, though I can see why some would criticise it, and - ultimately - I do agree with Peter Davison himself that it would have been better had it not been so obviously a designed costume, rather than whatever old mis-matched cricket whites The Doctor happened to have lying around en-route to the Zero Room in Castrovalva.