To tell the truth, Deerstalker does not actually own a deerstalker. There are several reasons for this, not the least the fact that the ones he has tried on did not suit him well at all. And after all, the man who will for all times be associated with the deerstalker, never, as far as we know, wore one.He is, of course, the King of detectives, Sherlock Holmes; known to the world thanks to his good friend John H. Watson's tales of his adventures. The drawing above is by the foremost of Holmes-illustrators, Sidney Paget. It is an illustration to Watson's story "Silver Blaze", and the reason for the misunderstanding of Holmes and the deerstalker.
In the story, Watson writes: "And so it happened that an hour or so later I found myself in the corner of a first-class carriage flying along en route for Exeter, while Sherlock Holmes, with his sharp, eager face framed in his ear-flapped traveling-cap, dipped rapidly into the bundle of fresh papers which he had procured at Paddington."
Paget interpreted "ear-flapped traveling-cap" as a deerstalker, and thereby a pop cultural icon was burned onto our collective retina.
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