The deerstalker In Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories Holmes is never actually described as wearing a deerstalker. The public perception of Holmes as a “deerstalker man” was derived from the original illustrations for the stories by Sidney Paget, Frederic Dorr Steele and others. The deerstalker is not the appropriate headgear for the properly-dressed urban gentleman and Paget and the other illustrators who portrayed Holmes in a deerstalker always placed him in the proper setting for such attire (i.e., operating in a rural outdoor setting)
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