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jsrnephdoc
I cannot imagine myself as a Sherlock Holmes impersonator in a deer stalker...
That's the thing, in a place where it's not all that uncommon a style you would just look like a person wearing a hat.
It reminds me of Western Wear. If a local duded up in Western Wear in Scotland it could be taken as a person impersonating a cowboy. But in Texas they'd just be a person wearing clothes.
BTW I had thought for years that it was illustrator Sidney Paget who had put a Deerstalker on Holmes' head, because he's shown wearing one in stories where his dress isn't mentioned, and in a story in which it's simply described as a "country cap".
But in Silver Blaze it's clearly described as "his earflapped travelling cap". (It's not shown as Houndstooth or any other pattern.)
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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