Carol K wrote: <Didn't Paul Darrow once say that the reason Avon got the leathers and the boots was because Gareth Thomas refused to wear them. Or am I misremembering?>

No, it's on the Blakes Back tapes and the Inside Story. GT ended up with the batwing jacket in goose-turd green (the proper name, truly, according to him!!) instead.

But of course, when Playing the Game <g> these people don't come into it.

It is interesting, watching the upsurge of sartorial exuberence in late S1-S2 after the plainness of the early, Earth fashions; as Bercol and Rontane, government high-flyers, also dress very plainly, I'm inclined to think that plain, unadorned fashion is the norm there (and possibly in the Inner Worlds) for all grades, differences being in quality of material and finish, perhaps. Once we get off Earth, it all starts to get more flamboyant (the Amagons, Sarkoff and Tyce, etc).

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