Top hat
A top hat was a formal hat with a high cylindrical crown; invented in the 18th century, and famously worn in the 19th and 20th centuries as well.
The Eleventh Doctor owned a top hat, which he wore at Amy and Rory's wedding, (TV: The Big Bang) after having been poisoned by River Song in Nazi Germany (TV: Let's Kill Hitler) and again to conceal a device that allowed him to lure The Squall back into their dimension of origin. (PROSE: Paradox Lost) During his retirement to the Victorian era, he wore a battered top hat, (TV: The Great Detective), and wore it again during the Siege of Trenzalore. (TV: The Snowmen)
When visiting the 1814 frost fair, the Twelfth Doctor wore a navy blue top hat which he gave to a little girl and replaced with a black one. (TV: Thin Ice)
While trying to take Peri Brown to London in 1899 for a holiday, the Sixth Doctor wore a dark top hat. (PROSE: Players)
Occasionally, the Eighth Doctor wore a black top hat. (COMIC: The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack; AUDIO: Other Lives)
Sherlock Holmes wore a black top hat when he and John Watson went to Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane's wedding on 2010. (PROSE: Happy Endings)
A character in The Beano was depicted as wearing a top hat in its 1981 Summer Special. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten, The Universe is Calling)
Shockeye and the Second Doctor, partially converted to an Androgum, wear gunmetal grey top hats when going out for a meal on Spain during the year 1985. (TV: The Two Doctors)
Ryan Sinclair and Graham O'Brien wore top hats when they first met Mary Shelly and Ashad. (TV: The Haunting of Villa Diodati)
Theodore Maxtible wore a black top hat during the Dalek Empire's Operation Human Factor. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks)
The Master in his 'spy incarnation' wore a black top hat when he confronted the Thirteenth Doctor on London during 1834. (TV: Spyfall)
Graham O'Brien and Ryan Sinclair wore black top hats when they met Mary Shelley, Lord George Gordon Byron, John Polidori, Claire Clairmont, and Ashad on 1816. (TV: The Haunting of Villa Diodati
Charles Dickens and Gabriel Sneed wore black top hats when they met the Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler, and the Gelth on 1869. (TV: The Unquiet Dead)
Mr Scoones, Mr Cole, Mr Fetch and Mr Milligan wore black top hats up to when they died during the 1851 Incident. (TV: The Next Doctor)
One version of the Corsair wore a black top hat. (PROSE: Eleven Things You Probably Didn't Know About the Corsair)
Dr Simeon wore a black top hat, (TV: The Snowmen) as did the Great Intelligence when taking his form on 1892. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)
The Pied Piper wore a black top hat when posing as Elijah Spellman, director for Spellman's Magical Museum of the Circus. (TV: The Day of the Clown)
The Half-Face Man wore a raven top hat during the 1890s. (TV: Deep Breath)
A predecessor of the First Doctor wore a black top hat. (TV: The Brain of Morbius)
The Ringmaster of the Psychic Circus wore a crimson top hat. (TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)
The Toymaker wore a black top hat when doing a mock dance with the Fourteenth Doctor in London during 2023. (TV: The Giggle)
