Kläderna återspeglar hur doktorn förändras under hela sin körning. Till exempel, efter julavsnittet av säsong 8, denna artikel säger att doktorn är lite lättare:
Steven Moffat has revealed that the Peter Capaldi's Doctor will return to season nine much different than he was in season eight.
“We’re not bringing him back exactly the same as we left him, at all. I think that was already evident at Christmas,” he explained. “He’s left some of the burden of being the superhero of the universe behind.”
Med tanke på att han inte kommer att visa sig själv som en hjälte så kan han ha känt att han inte behövde bry sig om huruvida han såg bra ut.
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Matt Smiths outfit ändrade
Wikipedia säger:
The Doctor's initial outfit, chosen within the narrative of "The Eleventh Hour" from an array of clothes found in a hospital, is a brown tweed jacket with elbow patches, bow tie, suspenders, black trousers and black, ankle-high boots. He has a fondness for bow ties and fezzes, proclaiming them as "cool."
The details of the outfit vary, switching from a braces and bow tie combination in red to the same in blue. In later stories, a green military coat makes its way into the Doctor's ensemble, occasionally replacing the Harris jacket.
On other occasions he does not wear a coat and wears a bow-tie and dress shirt. After the Doctor loses his original tweed jacket in the episode "Flesh and Stone" he replaces it with a plain brown jacket which he wears until the Christmas special "A Christmas Carol", which aired the Christmas after the eleventh Doctor's first series. In this episode the Doctor wears his most famous "Prince of Wales check" tweed jacket which he wears, with some switching to a green military coat, until parting ways with Amy and Rory in "The Angels Take Manhattan".
När det gäller den röda kappan, säger Wikipedia:
In "Face the Raven", the Twelfth Doctor sports a red velvet variant of his Crombie coat. After briefly ditching it in "Hell Bent", Clara comments that it made him look more 'doctory'. At the end of the episode, he dons the red coat in honour of her, and is given a new sonic screwdriver by the TARDIS.
Så beroende på hur han kommer ihåg Clara i säsong 10, kan han hålla det som en påminnelse (även om han inte har gjort det med de andra följeslagarna så långt jag vet - och du skulle tro det eftersom han var så knuten att Rose i början hade han hållit något).
Det kan naturligtvis vara något av en midlife kris som den här artikeln föreslår.