I have finished the clothing on both puppets. hooray!!

I first stitched on the layer that is 'skin tight' which included his shoes, trousers, shirt and jacket sleeves (see below):

Next I made his jacket, which started out as triall and error, I had to discard the first one but then I worked out a good way of doing it.
I'm not sure what it's called, but I used a stiff iron on material  ironed onto a large panel of the tights material I was using for his jacket, placed at carefully measured points. I then cut slits at the top of the jacket and tail piece meaning I could cover the backs of these sections but leaving them connected to the middle piece. I then cut neatly round these shapes and stitched around them in a grey thread with keeps the seam together but is also a part of the aesthetic design. I then measured the middle section to just fit around his waist and, hey presto we have a jacket! A few buttons and bits of book pages later it is ready to be stitched onto the puppets body.

I made up some hand armatures with wire and milliput and then skinned them with fine sporting injury foam dipped into latex. I didn't dip them in latex, but left the texture of the foam exposed as I didn't want a shiney quality to them and then added bits of ripped up book pages alike to the head.
If I had the time I would have made the hands out of balsa wood to be inkeeping with the head, however this would require lots of replacement hands as I need them to move, so this is a much quicker alternative and will hopefully not look too alien to each other under camera.

For the hands that you can see above, I used the lighter colour foam (left image), however when I make them for the final puppet I will be using the darker foam as seen in the right image as it matches the colour of the wood better.

Once I covered the whole head I added bith of ripped up book page onto the surface.
I was surprised at the end result that it did have a papery quality to it. However it was also quite shiney due to the application of the latex so I would like to test this head under camera to see if it does look too shiney.