TV Style

 I just wanted to mention some things from a couple of programmes I've been watching recently. 

Firstly, the latest Star Trek series: Starfleet Academy. The first season has just aired with a second (and now final, sadly, according to this week's news) to follow and personally I quite liked it. Obviously I'm going to talk about uniforms. I cosplay quite a few Star Trek uniforms and one of my favourites and indeed the first one I tried was the red dress from the original series. In fact I went to friend's birthday party in one on Saturday night and getting on a train and the London Underground in it is probably one of the bolder of my crossdressing adventures. 

Anyway, the uniforms from SA are mainly grey with a few flashes of colour to denote which area the cadets are studying. Within this framework they have a coloured t-shirt with a jacket and trousers, jacket and skirt and a dress. As soon as I saw the skirt suits I knew I wanted one and hopefully I will sort that out at some point. Now one other thing I should mention is that one of the boys is seen wearing the skirt suit! Jay-Den the Klingon wears it in a few episodes and this was so good to see. Back in the days of Star Trek; The Next Generation they did introduce a Starfleet dress (the skant) which some male extras were seen wearing in the background however this didn't last very long and was phased out by the second season. 

There's a nice article on it at Everybody Skirts here: Star Trek's Short Lived Skant. 

Now, things have moved on since the 1980s and people are a bit more relaxed about gender fluidity today (or at least they were for a while, things seem to be going backwards), or at least the youth are, this would be the perfect time to try a unisex uniform again. The trouble is however, unless I've missed some more extras, that Jay-Den appears to be the only one wearing it and the production team seems think it's ok for only him to dress like that because he's gay. Perhaps if a few others did it then it might appear more universal. It seems we still may not have come that far since the 1980s which is disappointing. 

The Starfleet Academy Cast (Photo by John Medland/Paramount +)

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I've also been catching up with the rest of the world and watching Ted Lasso. For the uninitiated, this was one of Apple TV's first big hits and centres around a good natured American football coach enlisted by UK football team AFC Richmond to turn around their fortunes. It ran for three series from 2020-2023 with a fourth coming soon and one of the characters I've fallen for is Keeley Jones played by Juno Temple. She's such a wonderful character who, in lesser hands, could have ended up as a typical WAG. Needless to say one big part of that is the outfits she wears which steer just close to OTT at times but have a certain feminine flair. 

Juno Temple as Keeley Jones in Ted Lasso

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Finally, speaking of wonderful outfits, a shout out to Morgan Gillory over at High Potential. This is the latest entry in the police consultant genre and sees Kaitlin Olson star as Morgan, a cleaner with a genius level IQ who starts assisting the LA Police with murder cases. She's a great character and has a wonderfully eclectic sense of style. Certainly one of those characters I watch to see what she's wearing that week. 

Morgan Gillory (Kaitlin Olson) in High Potential