deerstalker
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I have an entire shtick around my love for escape rooms, including a deerstalker hat and tweed.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2021
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
People who love finding out the back stories in fictional universes — why Sherlock Holmes wears a deerstalker hat; where Indiana Jones got his scar — will relish the chance to learn these details.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2020
He was wearing his trademark tweed deerstalker and a large digital watch-cum-calculator.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 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
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