Fez A fez was a type of brimless hat in the shape of a flat - topped cone . Fezzes were made of felt and typically , but not always , had a single tassel attached to the centre of their flat tops . They were particularly popular in the Ottoman Empire and in Egypt . Ibrahim Namin ( TV : " Pyramids of Mars " ) and Kemel ( TV : " The Evil of the Daleks " ) both wore fezzes . When the Second Doctor , Jamie McCrimmon , and Zoe Heriot visited the Frenko Bazaar , the store We Sell Hats had a fez , which the Doctor admired . ( COMIC : " Bazaar Adventures " ) When they visited Alexandria , he almost purchased a fez from a vendor , but his companions opined that it was not his style and so he left it for " another time " . ( PROSE : " The Anti - Hero " ) The Seventh Doctor briefly donned a fez while searching through the basement of Windsor Castle , before passing it on to Ace ( and also picked up a mop , for that matter ) . ( TV : " Silver Nemesis " ) The Eighth Doctor wore a fez to a football game in 1977 . He originally intended to land the TARDIS near the River Nile which was why he wore the fez in the first place . The Doctor lost the fez soon after the police began to chase him from the stadium . ( COMIC : " Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game " ) Whilst in his eleventh incarnation , the Doctor took a fez from an exhibit in the museum where the Pandorica was and wore it as he leapt back and forth through time . When River Song queried this by asking , " What in the name of sanity have you got on your head ? " he answered , " It ' s a fez . I wear a fez now . Fezzes are cool " , much as he did when defending his bow tie . River Song and Amy Pond promptly destroyed it , before continuing to reboot the universe . Later , he noted that he was missing his fez , but concluded that he could buy a new one . ( TV : " The Big Bang " ) This led to a particularly unusual obsession in trying to acquire a fez to wear . When the Eleventh Doctor dropped his fez over the TARDIS ' controls , it resulted in the fez ' original owner , Albert Einstein , materialising via a time window . ( TV : " Death Is the Only Answer " ) While taking Abigail Pettigrew out one Christmas Eve , the Eleventh Doctor and Kazran Sardick donned fezzes . ( TV : " A Christmas Carol " ) The Eleventh Doctor wore a fez again while spending a two - day brooding session in the TARDIS after being accused of crimes against the Overcast . ( COMIC : " Pull to Open " ) The Eleventh Doctor considered sporting a fez when he , Amy and Rory visited Nevada in 1861 . However , Amy and Rory insisted against it , so the Doctor wore a Stetson instead . ( PROSE : " The Good , the Bad and the Alien " ) When a version of Rory from the future appeared , the Eleventh Doctor used a fez taken from the TARDIS storeroom to differentiate him from the present Rory . ( PROSE : " Touched by an Angel " ) The Eleventh Doctor claimed he looked good in a fez . ( PROSE : " The Way Through the Woods " ) The Eleventh Doctor wore a fez while dancing in a Laurel & Hardy film . He later requested a fez while in the White House . His request was ignored . Later , he blamed his inability to do the work assigned to him as well as he had promised on his lack of a fez . ( TV : " The Impossible Astronaut " ) Rory later mentioned to an older version of Amy that the glasses he had to wear were better than a fez . ( TV : " The Girl Who Waited " ) In 2013 , the Eleventh Doctor , while picking a new outfit , briefly donned a fez , although he quickly took it off . Soon afterwards , he used it to collect tips from people at the South Bank of London who were impressed with the TARDIS materialising . He then gave the fez to a young boy . ( TV : " The Bells of Saint John " ) In 1923 , the Eleventh Doctor wore a fez trying to stop Miraclo taking a rabbit out of a hat . ( COMIC : " The Hat Trick " ) In 1930 , the Eleventh Doctor and Clara Oswald went to Baghdad to visit Omar , the best fez - maker in all of Mutter ' s Spiral to replace his previous fez , which was eaten by a slime - frog on the Third Moon of Puggo . ( COMIC : " A Wing and a Prayer " ) One piece of art deemed " unfit for public consumption " by the crowned heads of England was a fez , and it was placed in the National Museum ' s Under Gallery as a result . When the Eleventh Doctor and Clara visited , the Doctor was excited to see the fez , much to Clara ' s bemusement and stole it , and later used it to test the safety of time fissures opened onto his personal time stream . As a result , the fez was brief handled by the War Doctor and the Tenth Doctor before being confiscated by Queen Elizabeth I ' s guards in 1562 . ( TV : " The Day of the Doctor " ) During a visit with the Eleventh Doctor , Sarah Jane Smith tried on his fez . The Doctor asked her to give the fez to Clyde . ( PROSE : " Doctor Who and the Horror of Coal Hill " )