Brainy specs
The term "brainy specs" was invented by the Tenth Doctor to describe glasses that the Fifth Doctor didn't "even need" but which made him "look a bit clever". The older Doctor then admitted to wearing a pair of faux eyewear himself. (TV: Time Crash)
Most incarnations of the Doctor did not employ eyewear of any kind. Those that did actually needed corrective lenses. The First Doctor's glasses, for instance, were of no use to the Second Doctor, who immediately suspended their use after regeneration. (PROSE: The Power of the Daleks) Likewise, the Eleventh Doctor appropriated Amy Pond's reading glasses and noted that they did in fact making reading easier. (TV: The Angels Take Manhattan) Indeed, Amy's glasses were the only glasses every carried by the Doctor which were known to be genuinely corrective lenses resulting from an optometrist's prescription. (TV: The Power of Three)
