He wore this outfit during his takeover of Mobotropolis, now renamed to Robotropolis. He ditches the outfit for something more practical after the first Death Egg gets destroyed and his arrest, before he later escaped.

A sketch of the good doctor during his younger years.
Basically, this was his classic outfit in the Sonic Atlas AU.
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