Board Thread:The Reference Desk/@comment-4138948-20131013141628/@comment-188432-20131014151541

Yeah, that's right Digifiend, but in fairness to Paul Benjamin Austin, Peri and Zoe do look an awful lot alike in black and white comics.

Zoe's interesting, though, from a wardrobe perspective, so I'll blather on about that for a second. She often starts out one adventure with the costume from the last, providing a sense of continuity to season 6, just like Barbara and Susan's clothes were in season 1.

And certainly, Zoe has no problem wearing a dress. (Or, really, a mini-skirt.) Basically she alternated between wearing skirts, cat suits and teeny-tiny shorts. She's in skirts in about 50% of her individual episodes. She's in skirts for the whole of The Krotons, The Seeds of Death, and The War Games. Then she's in a skirt for roughly half The Invasion and most of The Dominators.

She's in the catsuit for The Mind Robber and half the The Invasion. In The Wheel in Space and an episode or so of The Dominators and the last scene of War Games, she's in her uniform on the Wheel. But it's pretty form-fiting, much like the catsuit.

It's really only the last two stories where there isn't much in the way of costume continuity.

For Space Pirates, she's in short-shorts, and in War Games, she's clearly been to the TARDIS wardrobe for a more-or-less 20th century skirt and trench coat affair. Her wardrobe is why a lot of stories in other media are set towards the end of season 6. There are more obvious narrative gaps around The Space Pirates.

Overall, though, the impression Zoe gave was that she was almost more "sixties swinger" than even Polly, who actually was a sixties swinger!