Glasses

Glasses
Type:	Optical enhancing lenses
Appearances:	Full list of appearances

Glasses were a set of lenses fitted into frames that allow for fixed, enhanced, or altered sight.

Notable uses

• The first incarnation carried a pair of opera glasses in his pocket. He utilised them for his first glimpses of the Dalek City on Skaro. (DW: The Daleks) The Ninth Doctor owned a similar pair. (DW: The Empty Child)
• The Master often used a pair of glasses as part of a disguise, such as his disguise as Reverend Magister whilst in Devil's End. (DW: The Dæmons)
• The fifth incarnation typically wore a pair of glasses in times of great stress, especially following his regeneration. (DW: Castrovalva)
• The seventh incarnation seemed to use a pair of glasses to enhance his hypnotic ability. (DW: Silver Nemesis)
• The tenth incarnation wore a pair of tortoise-shell rimmed square glasses, usually when he was concentrating on a particular object or subject. (DW: Tooth and Claw et al) He used a pair of 3D glasses when observing the effects of the Void on people and objects. (DW: Doomsday) He also wore a pair of sunglasses while on San Helios which were just his normal glasses tinted by his Sonic screwdriver (DW: Planet of the Dead) and also upon landing on the Planet of the Ood. (DW: The End of Time)

It is interesting to note that in Time Crash the Tenth Doctor said that the Fifth Doctor did not need glasses, but wore them to make him look smarter.

• The eleventh incarnation wore a pair of thermal imaging 'sunglasses' to detect Silurians in the dark. (DW: The Hungry Earth)