Paisley was a design involving tear themed symbols, invented on ancient Persia and named after a Scottish town.[source needed]
The Seventh Doctor wore scarves and ties as well as bands on his cream Panama hat of paisley; done on scarlet (TV: Time and the Rani-The Greatest Show in the Galaxy) burgundy, (TV: Battlefield-Survival) mustard and maroon, (TV: Dimensions in Time) or Prussian blue. (PROSE: Strange England) He also wore a paisley banded white fedora (PROSE: White Darkness) that he had had made especially for him. (PROSE: First Frontier)
The Eighth Doctor wore some double breasted waistcoats of paisley with shawl collars and a gold fob watch; 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 bracken green, (AUDIO: Caerdroia) one in tangerine orange, (AUDIO: The Devouring) and maroon. (AUDIO: Twenty-Four Doors in December)
Rose Noble wore an ebony black paisley skirt when she met the Fourteenth Doctor, Beep the Meep, and some Wrarth Warriors. (TV: The Star Beast)
Melanie Bush wore a crimson bandana scarf with ivory paisley symbols. (TV: Delta and the Bannermen)
Captain Cook, the intergalactic explorer, wore an ascot tie of burgundy and beige paisley. (TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)
John Ellis wore a crimson paisley scarf when he landed on the 21st century. (TV: Out of Time)
Redvers Fenn-Cooper wore an ascot tie of burgundy and gold paisley under the collar of his ivory shirt. (TV: Ghost Light)
The Monk wore a paisley scarf for a belt. (PROSE: The Persistence of Memory)
Bonnie wore a crimson paisley scarf similar to the Seventh Doctor's when taking Osgood's form. (TV: The Zygon Inversion)
The Curator, a future version of the Doctor, wore an ascot tie of navy and crimson paisley under his tattersall shirt's collar and a paisley handkerchief in the left breast pocket upon his blazer of olive green herringbone-tweed when taking the form of an older Fourth Doctor. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
The Valeyard wore a copy of the Eighth Doctor's single-breasted waistcoat of bronze paisley-brocade. (AUDIO: The War Valeyard)
Doctor Ogron wore a copy of the Eighth Doctor's double-breasted waistcoat of silver paisley-brocade. (AUDIO: Planet of the Ogrons)