deerstalker

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Woolens became such a status symbol that Arthur Conan Doyle clad his fictional sleuth Sherlock Holmes in a tweed deerstalker hat in 1893.

From National Geographic • Jan. 14, 2021

Gillette played Sherlock Holmes on stage many times, his deerstalker cap and Inverness cape shaping the image we still conjure today.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2020

Laurence, 23, from Paris is wearing a deerstalker and is a member of the Sherlock Holmes Society in France.

From The Guardian • Dec. 17, 2016

Some of Elgar’s older friends are English eccentrics; Richard Baxter-Townsend, making his first entrance and exit on a period tricycle, sports a deerstalker and uses an ear-trumpet.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2016

In the original Sherlock Holmes stories Sherlock Holmes is never described as wearing a deerstalker hat, which is what he is always wearing in pictures and cartoons.

From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon