Waistcoat
A waistcoat was a close-fitting waist-length vest with buttons on the front and pockets for fob watches, worn over a shirt and under a jacket or coat.
Worn by the Doctor
Many incarnations of the Doctor wore waistcoats.
The First Doctor wore a beige tweed waistcoat with a fob watch. (TV: An Unearthly Child, et all) He also wore an ochre waistcoat. (TV: The Rescue, The Web Planet) His beige waistcoat was his last right up to his death after the 1986 Cyberman Invasion of Earth. (TV: The Tenth Planet, Twice Upon A Time)
The Second Doctor sometimes wore waistcoats. (PROSE: Daleks Invade Zaos, Golem) For the Battle of Waterloo, he wore a white waistcoat. (PROSE: World Game)
The Third Doctor wore a grey waistcoat with symbols when he first went to Peladon. (TV: The Curse of Peladon) He also wore a crimson velvet waistcoat with a single-chained fob watch of gold when dealing with BOSS and giant maggots, (TV: The Green Death) and when foiling the Dalek Empire's Exxilon Gambit. (TV: Death to the Daleks)
The Fourth Doctor wore checked waistcoats done in tan, (TV: Terror of the Zygons) or yellow; (TV: City of Death) and also wore some in wine purple, (TV: The Ribos Operation) and burgundy. (TV: The Leisure Hive) He also wore an indigo brocade waistcoat with a fob watch. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
The Fifth Doctor began his first hours in the Fourth Doctor's burgundy waistcoat before switching for a cream jumper. (TV: Logopolis, Castrovalva) He also wore a beige waistcoat with flora and fauna symbols during a visit to Lanzarote during the year 1984. (TV: Planet of Fire)
The Sixth Doctor wore single-breasted waistcoats on many styles. He first wore a knitted waistcoat that was dark brown, orange and purple in colour and featured dark green buttons, along with a dark green metal watch chain, (TV: The Twin Dilemma) a dark purple squared waistcoat, (PROSE: Burning Heart) a waistcoat with tweed pattern on the right side and a zig-zag pattern on the left, (PROSE: Time Wake) a plain brown waistcoat, (COMIC: Virtually Indestructible) a plain violet waistcoat, (COMIC: Endgame) and another with a blue striped theme. (AUDIO: Year of the Pig) He occasionally wore a navy blue one (WC: Real Time) and also wore a brown and crimson tweed waistcoat with his 'Bletchley Tweeds'. (AUDIO: Criss-Cross, Quicksilver) In tropics, he wore a Hawaiian style waistcoat. (TV: The Two Doctors; AUDIO: Bloodtide) He also wore a maroon waistcoat when he reunited with Peri Brown on the Memory TARDIS. (TV: Vengeance on Varos) His most prominent waistcoat became a red and white gingham waistcoat with bear face buttons, (TV: The Mysterious Planet) which he wore up to his death. (TV: Time and the Rani)
The Seventh Doctor tried on a Napoleonic waistcoat in cream before switching for a beige sweater vest with turquoise zigzags and cherry question marks. (TV: Time and the Rani) He also wore single-breasted waistcoats; one in plain orange, (PROSE: St Anthony's Fire) and one made of scarlet brocade. (TV: Doctor Who)
The Eighth Doctor wore some double breasted waistcoats of paisley with a shawl collar and a single-breasted fob watch of gold; one in silver grey, (TV: Doctor Who) one in violet purple, (COMIC: Dreadnought) one in cream, (COMIC: Ophidius) one in ochre, (AUDIO: The Stones of Venice) one in lime green, (AUDIO: Caerdroia) one in tangerine orange, (AUDIO: The Devouring) and one in maroon. (AUDIO: Twenty-Four Doors in December) Soon, he wore a single breasted waistcoat of mustard yellow velvet, (COMIC: The Pictures of Josephine Day) and also some of brocade done in wine purple, (AUDIO: He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not,) plain vermillion, (AUDIO: Meanwhile, Elsewhere-Previously, Next Time) or bronze brown. (TV: The Night of the Doctor) His bronze waistcoat was the last one before his death on Karn. (TV: The Night of the Doctor)
The War Doctor wore the Eighth Doctor's single-breasted waistcoat of bronze brocade for some time. (TV: The Night of the Doctor; AUDIO: Light the Flame; WC: Doctors Assemble) He switched for double-breasted moleskin waistcoats with shawl collars and double-breasted fob watches of bronze under his leather trenchcoats, either ginger orange, (COMIC: The Clockwise War) mahogany brown, (COMIC: The Whole Thing's Bananas) mustard yellow, (COMIC: First Rule-Fast Asleep) dark khaki, (COMIC: Four Doctors)or dark maroon. (TV: The Name of the Doctor, The Day of the Doctor) His maroon waistcoat was his last one which he wore in the Battle for the Tantalus Eye, (PROSE: Engines of War) and right up to his death after the 1562/2013 Zygon Invasion of Earth and the Fall of Gallifrey. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
When posing as John Smith, the Tenth Doctor wore a charcoal tweed waistcoat. (TV: Human Nature/The Family of Blood)
While travelling through Malthill Way in 1745, the Eleventh Doctor wore a violet purple waistcoat with gold edges. (COMIC: Malthill Way) During his retirement to London during the 1890s, he wore a single-breasted waistcoat of plum purple velvet with a pocket watch. (TV: The Great Detective, The Snowmen) He also wore a double-chained fob watch of gold on a charcoal grey moleskin waistcoat, (TV: The Rings of Akhaten) a raven black velvet waistcoat with lapels, (TV: Nightmare in Silver) before switching it for an ebony black one with a light check pattern. (TV: The Day of the Doctor) While in Victorian Yorkshire, the Doctor wore a brown chequered version of his burgundy attire. (TV: The Crimson Horror) He wore the plum purple velvet one on Trenzalore, and switched for the ebony black one with the light cheque before his death. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
The Twelfth Doctor spent his first hours in the Eleventh Doctor's ebony waistcoat before switching for cardigans. (TV: The Time of the Doctor, Deep Breath) sometimes wore waistcoats, (TV: Mummy on the Orient Express, Thin Ice) leading up to his death. (TV: Twice Upon A Time)
The Thirteenth Doctor wore the Twelfth Doctor's black waistcoat before switching for t-shirts. (TV: Twice Upon A Time, The Woman Who Fell to Earth) She wore a blue waistcoat with clock symbols during her first encounter with Ashad. (TV: The Haunting of Villa Diodati)
The Fourteenth Doctor wore a single-breasted waistcoat of dark maroon and turquoise tartan with a notched collar, (TV: The Power of the Doctor) which he soon replaced with one in plum and black. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks)
A feminine version of the Doctor with a bald head and dark skin wielding a flaming sword wore a raven black waistcoat. (PROSE: Rose)
The Fugitive Doctor wore a double-breasted waistcoat of Prussian blue tweed with a shawl collar. (TV: Fugitive of the Judoon, The Timeless Children, Once, Upon Time, The Power of the Doctor)
The Curator, a future form of the Doctor, wore single-breasted waistcoats when taking the form of an older Sixth Doctor; one black with mustard yellow stripes and royal yellow trims, (AUDIO: Crossed Lines) and one of amber and bronze brocade. (AUDIO: The Artist at the End of Time)
The Warrior, a parallel version of the Doctor's fifth incarnation which looks similar to the sixth, wore a double-breasted waistcoat of dark maroon moleskin with a bronze fob watch similar to the War Doctor of N-Space. (AUDIO: Aftershocks)
A parallel version of the Doctor wore a single-breasted waistcoat of charcoal and sapphire tartan when he and Bernice Summerfield fought Faction Cybermen on Nazi Germany. (AUDIO: Blood and Steel) Another parallel version known as the Warrior wore a double breasted waistcoat of dark green-brown moleskin with 10 brass buttons and a fob chain similar to the N-Space version's war incarnation. (AUDIO: Aftershocks)
Worn by companions
Sarah Jane Smith sometimes wore waistcoats of black pinstripe. (TV: The Stolen Earth|Journey's End, The Last Sontaran, The Day of the Clown, Enemy of the Bane, The Mad Woman in the Attic, The Eternity Trap, Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith) She also wore waistcoats in cream; (TV: The Gift, Lost in Time, Sky, The Curse of Clyde Langer) and also in tan. (TV: Death of the Doctor)
Romana II wore a gold waistcoat. (TV: The Horns of Nimon; COMIC: Time Lady of Means)
Ryan Sinclair and Graham O'Brien sometimes wore waistcoats. (TV: Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror, The Haunting of Villa Diodati)
Peri Brown wore a bronze waistcoat when posing as Percy Blakeney's wife. (AUDIO: Plight of the Pimpernel)
Jackson Lake wore a double-breasted waistcoat of scarlet brocade with a shawl collar and a gold fob watch when he and Rosita Farisi helped the Tenth Doctor foil Cybus Cybermen during the 1851 Incident. (TV: The Next Doctor)
Yasmin Khan and Dan Lewis wore waistcoats in the early 1900s; Yasmin's beige with a shawl collar and Dan Lewis's black. Both did it during the year 1904, the 2021 Sontaran Invasion of Earth, and the Flux. (TV: Survivors of the Flux, The Vanquishers)
Nyssa wore an ebony and silver brocade waistcoat when she joined the Fifth Doctor in the First Rani's trap. (TV: Dimensions in Time)
John Riddell, an Edwardian hunter, wore a beige waistcoat with a gold fob watch when he met Queen Nefertiti and helped rescue dinosaurs on a Silurian Ark during 2367. (TV: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)
Jenny Flint wore single breasted waistcoats done in Prussian blue, (TV: A Good Man Goes to War) sapphire blue, (TV: Deep Breath), or charcoal grey. (COMIC: The Lost Dimension)
Nardole wore a single-breasted waistcoat of maroon and beige tartan with a notched collar. (TV: The Pilot, World Enough and Time|The Doctor Falls)
While acting as his successor, Jack Harkness wore the Sixth Doctor's coat, including his seventh favourite waistcoat. (AUDIO: Piece of Mind)
Jamie McCrimmon wore a charcoal grey waistcoat when he reunited with Zoe Heriot in the Memory TARDIS. (TV: The Mind Robber)
Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge Stewart wore a moss green waistcoat with a matching Argyll jacket during the Zygon Gambit. (TV: Terror of the Zygons) He also wore a navy blue waistcoat with a matching blazer when braving the Game of Rassilon set up by President Borusa in his quest for immortality. (TV: The Five Doctors) He also wore a maroon waistcoat with a blazer of houndstooth tweed when he helped the Bannerman Road Gang to foil Bane including Wormwood and Cal Kilburne as well as Commander Kaagh from the Sontaran Empire's Special Assault Squad and sole survivor of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet; (TV: Enemy of the Bane) and when he helped the Ninth Doctor to fight Mondasian Cybermen. (AUDIO: Way of the Burryman, The Forth Generation)
Worn by the Master
Many versions of the Master wore waistcoats.
The Tremas Master wore a silver waistcoat during his Survival Stratagem, (TV: Survival) during his dark sports with the Determinant, (GAME: Destiny of the Doctor) and during his alliance with Adam Mitchell. (COMIC: Cat and Mouse)
As John Smith, the Decayed Master wore a charcoal waistcoat. (AUDIO: Master)
The War Master wore many waistcoats done in green-and-brown stripes cotton, (AUDIO: The Master of Callous) gunmetal grey tweed, (AUDIO: Rage of the Time Lords) dark beige tweed, (AUDIO: Day of the Master) mustard yellow moleskin, (AUDIO: Killing Time) or wine brocade. (TV: Utopia)
The Spy Master wore a plaid moleskin waistcoat and trousers with a pattern of three vertical stripes interlocking with three lines of horizontal dashes, in varying shades of orange over a navy background during the Kasaavin invasion, (TV: Spyfall) and the Restoration of the Cyber-Empire. (TV: Ascension of the Cybermen|The Timeless Children)
Worn by others
Emily Morris wore a cream waistcoat with tan stripes. (TV: Lost in Time)
Henry Jago and George Litefoot wore double breasted waistcoats. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
John Lumic wore an ebony pinstripe waistcoat up to becoming a Controller of the Cybus Cybermen. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen|The Age of Steel)
Winston Churchill who was prime minister for Britain during World War 2 wore a black waistcoat; (TV: Victory of the Daleks) as did his parallel counterpart who was Holy Roman Emperor on River Song's World. (TV: The Wedding of River Song)
Artie Berger, a piano musician, wore a raven black waistcoat with a charcoal grey blazer and a chestnut brown trenchcoat when helping to capture a sound monster on 1946. (AUDIO: Fright Motif)
Charles Dickens wore a single breasted waistcoat of ebony and gold brocade when he met the Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Gwyneth, and the Gelth in Cardiff during 1869. (TV: The Unquiet Dead)
The Toymaker wore an alabaster waistcoat when he was mock dancing with the Fourteenth Doctor in London during 2023. He also wore a single-breasted waistcoat of plum-and-sapphire tartan in Soho during 1925. (TV: The Giggle)
Mr Copper wore a waistcoat of olive green tweed. (TV: Voyage of the Damned)
Professor Jeremiah P. Kettlewell wore an olive waistcoat. (TV: Robot)
Doctor Ogron wore a copy of the Eighth Doctor's double-breasted waistcoat of silver paisley-brocade. (AUDIO: Planet of the Ogrons)
The Dream Lord wore a beige waistcoat with his tweed suit when he taunted the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond, and Rory Williams during the beginning of the Eknodine assault. (TV: Amy's Choice)
The Ringmaster of the Psychic Circus wore a double-breasted waistcoat of rainbow fabric. (TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)
Professor Jericho wore a charcoal grey waistcoat during the early 1900s during the year 1904, the 2021 Sontaran Invasion of Earth, and the Flux.(TV: Survivors of the Flux|The Vanquishers)
Webley wore a ginger waistcoat with a fob watch up to his death during the Battle of Hedgewick's World of Wonders. (TV: Nightmare in Silver)
The Half-Face Man wore a single breasted waistcoat of ebony black moleskin with a mahogany brown trim and a fob watch during the 1890s. (TV: Deep Breath)
Rhys Williams wore a crimson and gold brocade waistcoat when he married Gwen Cooper. (TV: Something Borrowed)
John Ellis wore a charcoal waistcoat when he landed in 21st century Cardiff. (TV: Out of Time)
The Pied Piper wore a black waistcoat when posing as Mr. Spellman, director of Spellman's Magical Museum of the Circus. (TV: The Day of the Clown)
Verity Newman wore a charcoal waistcoat with her lavender blouse when she met the Tenth Doctor. (TV: The End of Time)
Robert Muir wore a tan waistcoat. He and Charles Cranleigh also wore waistcoats as part of their Georgian costumes; his cream and Charles's tan. (TV: Black Orchid)
Theodore Maxtible wore a black waistcoat. Edward Waterfield also wore a maroon waistcoat. They did this during the Dalek Empire's Operation Human Factor. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks)
The Valeyard wore a copy of the Eighth Doctor's bronze waistcoat. (AUDIO: The War Valeyard)
