Inverness style rain cape

[Chef]

James I have two of Mister Antony's capes. The Standard in Black and an Ultimate in RAF blue. I highly recommend his wares.

[ccga3359]

Grant,

Have you considered that by "game" it is meant quarry? "The game is afoot" might be taken as akin to the "fox is running" therefore the hunter pursues.

This is how I have always understood the phrase.

Cheers

Jamie

So basically, as Jay is a hunter, you're saying that he should shoot himself in the foot !

[Chef]

How the can a game be a foot?

Not "a foot", afoot. The word afoot can mean underway. Holmes' quote "the game is afoot" just meant the game had started. Holmes considered the tracking down of the perpetrator to be a most serious game.

[Panache]

Not "a foot", afoot. The word afoot can mean underway. Holmes' quote "the game is afoot" just meant the game had started. Holmes considered the tracking down of the perpetrator to be a most serious game.

Chef,

The I believe the phrase comes from Shakespeare's Henry V

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'

Doing a little online research it would seem that the original phrase dealt with pursuing a game animal in a hunting context. After Doyle's Sherlock Holmes adopted the phrase it would seem to have come to mean that a game had started with game indicating an intellectual pastime/deversion.

Sorry for taking your thread so far off topic James.

Cheers

Jamie

[Sheep In Wolf's Clothing]

Being a Sherlockian, (yes we do exist) I might be able to clear up (or maybe not) the use of the phrase. The phrase "The game is afoot" comes from Shakespeare's plays Henry IV Act 1 Scene 3 line 276 and it is also found in The life of Henry the Fifth Act III Scene 1 line 32. I can't remember the exact quote but it is a hunting reference "Set the hounds to the quarry the game is afoot!" Holmes used the line in the story "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange".

Sadly there are no kilts featured in the Sherlock Holmes stories, but there are a few Scots (not to mention thier author) in the stories, including the long suffering Mrs.Hudson! As well, it never mentions that Holmes wore a deerstalker cap or an Inverness cape, these were added to the character by artist Sidney Paget.

Sara
Who's books about Scottish history are only out numbered by her books about Mr.Sherlock Holmes

[starbkjrus]

James I have two of Mister Antony's capes. The Standard in Black and an Ultimate in RAF blue. I highly recommend his wares.

I have one of the aforementioned capes that I bought at Geoffrey (Tailor) LTD. in Edinburgh this summer. I love it. I WANT a nice wool Inverness Cape but can't justify spending $1000.00 on one just now. The rain cape works for me at the moment.

[James MacMillan]

Sorry for taking your thread so far off topic

Oh, who cares?

So - - Is someone saying that "The game's afoot." doesn't come from Holmes?

It just seems so right!

Sort-of like "Judy, Judy, Judy" for Carey Grant - which supposedly he never said?

[ccga3359]

Being a Sherlockian, (yes we do exist) I might be able to clear up (or maybe not) the use of the phrase. The phrase "The game is afoot" comes from Shakespeare's plays Henry IV Act 1 Scene 3 line 276 and it is also found in The life of Henry the Fifth Act III Scene 1 line 32. I can't remember the exact quote but it is a hunting reference "Set the hounds to the quarry the game is afoot!" Holmes used the line in the story "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange".

Sadly there are no kilts featured in the Sherlock Holmes stories, but there are a few Scots (not to mention thier author) in the stories, including the long suffering Mrs.Hudson! As well, it never mentions that Holmes wore a deerstalker cap or an Inverness cape, these were added to the character by artist Sidney Paget.

Sara
Who's books about Scottish history are only out numbered by her books about Mr.Sherlock Holmes

And she drank snow chilled beer in High school!

[sharpdressedscot]

I won't be needing a rain cape seeing as I haven't seen a decent rain in months.....

Do they come in tartans?

[Daaaaang]

I won't be needing a rain cape seeing as I haven't seen a decent rain in months.....

Do they come in tartans?

I think Mister Anthony does one in a tartan, but it is for women.