• If I were still young and cute I'd wear those, yep.

• NICE!

• I think it would be fine. I'd be wearing the hat for cons but I'd probably cut out the leggings altogether since I'm not a fan of leggings. Other than that I think this would be a regularly worn dress for me which is odd since I almost never wear dresses.

• Wow, this is awesome. I hope she's selling them because this would surely make me give up my shorts when it's hot and wear dresses more regularly. I'd cut out the leggings since I'm not a fan of them but otherwise some very nice stuff!

• "...where you can see designs for Dalek-inspired dresses" holy CRAP!! have...have we reached nerd utopia when i was napping? where's my flying cars? where are the robo dogs? and where in god's name is my personal french maid sexbot?!

• I like and don't like some of her designs (mostly some silhouette and color choices on the tardis dress, I would have made it a shade or two darker.) But she still does some pretty good work and sketches so good for her! :) I also lol'd a bit at the last silver/black dress on the bottom of the linked page. only because I recently had to work with a ton of that same stripped taffeta she used for a fashion show. seriously love the material, and it's nice to see somebody else appreciated it as well. :D

• I'm a sucker for mod fashion and I'm a nerd. That dress needs to be in my girlfriend's wardrobe.

• Way cool, I was actuly talking to her last night at the bar in the Hyatt. She made her dad's coustume and he was Obi Wan Kenobi and he looked great.

• I don't watch DW, but I do love the design sketches for the collection, and the outfits from the "Warp" collection at her dA page too. I wish there were more sci-fi influences on clothing; the structured, minimal look is one of my favorites. Occasionally H&M will come up with something killer, but there's not a ton that's ready-to-wear.

• I've only ever seen Dalek dresses, but these are all lovely! Geek-inspired clothing, subtle or not, is my weakness.

• I'm ridiculously excited by that dress and several others of her designs, though that completely dead look in the eyes of the model in the picture terrifies me. ... Can't wait to see pictures of the real Dalek dress!

• I think he's afraid we'd start asking if she's bigger on the inside... Anyhoo, I think it looks good, but it's just as usless as any other fasion on a runway.

• The fact I'm not wearing the Dalek dress right now, is pretty tough too deal with.

• Yeah need room for like Wendy Pepper, yes I watched the first season then the second, then stopped...and only remember the first.

• HOLY CRAP! THAT IS MY FRIEND TARA! AWESOME TOPLESS ROBOT!

• There's another female comics fan in Baltimore? Color me impressed. I don't think I've ever seen another lady in my local shop. The dress is absurdly cute. I'd wear it in a heartbeat, albeit probably without the leggings and cap.

• D'oh! Ignore this one! Stupid broken connection telling me it didn't go through!! I hate accidental double posts :-/ (Feel free to delete the comment I'm replying to! I'd appreciate it!)

• Holy smokes! Anyone that does geek-inspired apparel ... and not in typical cosplay style ... is 100% awesome. I love that this one is very 60's style minidress. Ah, there's a style that needs to come back into fashion immediately. The Dalek cocktail dress is really much sexier than it has any right to be. But my favorite is the Dr. outfit with the skirt and vest ... very retro-brit office wear. Super attractive. Phenomenal job, Tara! As a cosplayer, I salute you (and as a man, I ask "how can I buy some of these dresses for my girlfriend before she starts wearing pants again?")!

• Holy smokes! Anyone that makes geek-inspired fashion ... and not just typical cosplay style costumes ... is 100% awesome. I love that this one is done in a 60's style mini-dress. The Dalek cocktail dress design is really very sexy ... but I think my favorite is the outfit with the skirt and vest. Very attractive retro-brit office wear. Incredibly well done, Tara!

• Simply adorable.

• Amen

• Jst so you know cool nerd chics on the interwebs are not supposed to have boyfriends. It tarnishes your brand.

• Matching belt maybe to create a waist? Might take away a leetle from the phoneboothy (I made a new word!) look of the dress but you'd still be representing. If I wore dresses all these designs would be bought by me in a heartbeat

• I absolutely love the color. It's very nearly International Klein Blue, which is very hard to manufacture. I wish so badly this were a wiggle dress though! I just keep imagining Christina Hendricks wearing this exact pattern and I swoon every time. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FW86_jO7k_A/TBaRNp3uZqI/AAAAAAABxfg/BThpHabzI38/s1600/Mad%2BMen%2BMad%2BStyle%2BJoan%2BHolloway%2BSeason%2B1%2BEpisode%2B10%2B1.jpg Better than anything else is just how masterfully she has articulated these theme into her work. It takes a lot of work to make a garment that is subtly inspired by a brand. It's a lot easier to keep on tacking on details rather than settle on a single, classic motif, especially something as understated as this. And way to go on nailing the mod look, which is classic Who.

• ...I'm in love. Especially with that dress on the subway platform with the plaid. Seriously, this chick is amazing and I want to buy most of her clothes right now.

• They don't take kindly to cosplayers entering I've heard. A few popular ones have tried to get on and were turned away from auditions, Project Runway wants "serious" designers who are trying to make it in the industry for the most part, the "wacky person who designs unqiue clothing!" slot gets filled up early and is locked in to only one or two people a season.

• Sorry, I don't like the TARDIS dress at all, It looks like a maternity smock to me... The other two outfits being modeled on the link are great though. The 'space girl' one is definitely a niche type of outfit, but the second one on the subway platform, that one I could picture people wearing out for a night on the town.

• Baltimore. My boyfriend was very excited when I banned pants for the summer. =P I really love the Dalek dress she sketched out. Adorable.

• Tara's been a friend of mine for ages, and I am loving her whole dr. who line!

• I love that the design inspired by Rose's outfit from the wire ep is called "Idiot Rose"

• These are great.I would be chuffed to buy a male version of these even with the little hat.

• Were you not here for the Ray Bradbury troll? I think Rob is giving us just as much credit as we deserve.

• A lot of people still don't realize that nerds are punk, in that they have a totally DIY mindset and a very different vision than most people. Nevermind the Bollocks, Here's the Nerd Grrrl with the Tardis Dress!

• Live somewhere where it's hot? I think the dress is really cute and I'd buy and wear it in a heartbeat if I had the monies. Maybe without the hat though.

• I don't think that's Maria, so much as its the modern day cyberman look... (though, one could argue that they did use Metropolis as an influence for that look, so there you go) great stuff, by the way! I wonder how many con chicks would rock these dresses...

• I don't know a damn thing about fashion, so if you didnt say that was a Tardis-inspired outfit, I'd never have guessed.

• "Crass or mean"? Uh...I could make a Rotwang* joke, maybe, but otherwise I got nothing. Lovely costuming! *Maria? Metropolis? Anybody? Aw, Hel...

• I love the Dalek dress too. I'm ready to wear it now!

• It depends which of her designs you pick. That little tardis outfit could be a normal day pick sans the little hat for me. I have sworn off pants until September so I wear a lot of dresses and skirts.

• As a girl who spends toooo much time with sewing nuts- The fabric's not great. It looks like it wrinkled Reaaaallly easily, and it desperately needed to be ironed before that photo was taken. I prefer things with waistlines, but it's because I've got the body shape of a chubby hourglass and suspect that cute little mod cut would turn me into a dumpy blue blob. That's not the dresses fault, that's just me, and it's why even an empire waist would be nice. It's adorable, though, and I'm enough of a geek even knowing I'd look bad in it I'd probably buy it. Sigh.

• Mean?! Why would anyone be mean? This is AWESOME! <i>She's</i> awesome! Can't wait to show this to my wife.

• Faaaaabulous! Someone send her to Project Runway!

• Very nice The scarf is a nice touch. As a side note the warning to be on our best behaviour gives me a mental image of a load of internet nerds with spit-combed hair sticking their pinkies out drinking tea!

• I'm not a big fan of the tardis dress. I think it's the color; it's a bit garish. It would probably look better in something like denim... but I'm willing to give her a pass for that. The other designs are quite gorgeous. I would definitely wear the last one on the first link.

• Favorites are the Dalek and Cyberman dresses. Too cute.

• Anyone who gets crass about this gal needs to beaten. Very creative stuff. Love the little key zipper. Hope she gets to do a fashion show some day!

• What is there to be crass or mean about? Seriously, Rob, give your readers <i>some</i> credit.

• I really like the sketch of the dalek dress, wonder if she will ever make men's clothing?

• I like the general idea of the dress but something about the fabric just does not seem right to me, or something liek that it seems off to me for some reason or another, cool concept none the less

• Speaking as a guy, I'm not sure how practical everyday wear would be. If any of the nerd girls here could give their opinion. I personally actually find these dress very sexy and flattering. I find that the less shown sometimes is far more beautiful. They have a bit of a 60's feel to them, I very much like this.

• One of the things I love most about nerds like this is when they aren't afraid to combine an awesome skill like fashion design with their nerd love. A lot of my nerd friends are very skilled at various things like this and get a lot of ridicule from others who aren't "nerdy" but also aren't really good at anything except watching TV and drinking beer.

• The key zipper tab is perfect.

• So cute!

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