“People say, “Why do you always wear the same thing? There is a very practical reason, one of which, of course, is it enables you in terms of continuity to cut things together, so that stuff you shot two years ago, if you really wanted to stick another thing in, you can put the two together and nobody would know the difference.

But the other important thing to me as far as I’m concerned is, it seems to me if you change your costume, and wear, I don’t know, some kind of…fashionable thing, people say, “Why has he done that? Is it trying to tell us something? I mean, has the climate changed? Or, you know, what is he trying to do?” So you are asking for attention away from what it is you’re trying to talk about. So it’s much better that the narrator should always have the same thing so you don’t have [a situation where] he suddenly appears with a funny hat, or you know, with a feather boa.”

– Sir David Attenborough on his work uniform of blue shirt and beige trousers

Credits:
Video (excerpted from Life on Air) from YouTube
Photograph of Sir David Attenborough from The Daily Beast