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[[File:Yellow deerstalker.jpg|thumb|250px|right|A deerstalker]]
A '''deerstalker''' is a type of [[cap]] that is typically worn in rural areas, often for hunting, especially [[deer stalking]].  Because of the cap's popular association with the fictional detective [[Sherlock Holmes]],<ref>((Cite news |last=Osborn |first=Michael |date=25 December 2009 |title=Sherlock Holmes ditches his deerstalker |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8420024.stm |access-date=24 August 2022 |archive-date=17 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210217023937/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8420024.stm |url-status=live ))</ref> it has become stereotypical headgear for a detective, especially in comical drawings or [[cartoon]]s along with farcical plays and films.<ref>((Cite web |last=Rich |first=Sarah C. |date=26 July 2012 |title=The Deerstalker: Where Sherlock Holmes' Popular Image Came From |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-deerstalker-where-sherlock-holmes-popular-image-came-from-7325976/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200402062018/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-deerstalker-where-sherlock-holmes-popular-image-came-from-7325976/ |archive-date=2 April 2020 |access-date=2 June 2020 |website=[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]]))</ref>
[[File:Professional stalker glassing deer Ardnamurchan Estate Scotland 01.png|thumb|Scottish [[Deer stalking|deer stalker]] with a deerstalker cap glassing the surroundings with a [[monocular]]]]

==Construction==
According to Sean M. Wright, writer and member of [[The Baker Street Irregulars]] ("The Manor House Case"), who has constructed dozens of them, the deerstalker is most often made of cloth, often light or heavy wool [[tweed (cloth)|tweed]], although deerstalkers made of [[suede]], white [[cotton duck]], and even [[denim]] are not unknown. "I even made one for the late Los Angeles attorney Robert Landon Kirste," said Sean, "who asked me to make a deerstalker of black velvet for formal occasions. When I asked if he wanted white ribbon to tie the earflaps, he demurred. 'I don't want to stand out,' he explained.”((citation needed|date=April 2023))

The cap is made of six (or eight) triangular panels with rounded sides, which are sewn together. If the sides of the panels are cut in a way giving them slightly rounded shoulders midway, the crown will become more squared and flatter rather than hemispherical.  The cap may be deep or shallow, barely touching the tops of the ears, according to the whim of the hatter. Either way, it is usually lined with an inner cap of [[satin]], polished [[cotton]], or similar lining fabrics. Occasionally, one can find a deerstalker with a lightly quilted satin lining.  

The deerstalker's defining feature is a pair of semicircular [[Visor|bills or visors]] worn in front and rear. The dual bills provide protection from the sun for the face and neck of the wearer during extended periods outdoors, such as for hunting or fishing. These are usually stiffened with [[pasteboard (paper product)|pasteboard]], [[cardboard (paper product)|cardboard]], or layers of heavy [[canvas]]. For a brief period during the 1970s, some deerstalkers were manufactured with bills stiffened by the steam-cooked and pressure-molded wood-fiber construct called [[Masonite]]. The Masonite tended to crack and break into segments, and over time, was also apt to crumble at the corners.

Along with its visors, a deerstalker often, though not essentially, has a pair of unstiffened cloth earflaps attached to either side of the cap. These are tied together by [[grosgrain]] ribbons or by laces or, very occasionally, held together by snaps or a button. The earflaps, tied under the chin, provide protection in cold weather and high winds.  They are otherwise tied together above the crown to keep them out of the way.

Deerstalkers may be made of solid-coloured material, but they are most often found with [[houndstooth]] check, [[herringbone (cloth)|herringbone]], or [[Tartan|plaid]] patterns in the [[twill]] of a fabric that serves as [[camouflage]]. Modern hunting clothes, including deerstalkers, are often made with either a red-and-black or an orange-and-black check pattern or tweed for both this purpose and [[hunting|hunter safety]], not least in actual [[deer stalking]], for which purpose [[Millinery|milliner]]s originally constructed((When|date=October 2015)) this type of cap.

==Variations==
The "sportsman's deerstalker" is made with a [[brim (hat)|brim]] around the cap, narrow at the sides, but which may be elongated in front or back, omitting the separate double bills. The earflaps are also eliminated. Some types of this cap sport a hatband fashioned from the same material around the crown. The "flapless" version can be easily folded for convenient carrying. 

The variants of the "Irish" style deerstalker are minor but significant. The cap is fronted with a cloth panel instead of the usual seam. The earflaps, wide and triangular in the standard version, are narrow with straight sides. The usual semicircular visors may be replaced by short, rectangular bills. [[George C. Scott]] wore this type of deerstalker as a [[jurist]] who imagines himself to be Sherlock Holmes in the 1971 film [[They Might Be Giants (film)|''They Might be Giants'']].

Also, a reversible deerstalker is made that looks like the standard, double-billed model, but it can be turned inside out, revealing an entirely different fabric or even suede, with the contrasting earflaps of the original fabric turned backward and tied together. Other caps with earflaps, e.g. "trapper" and "ushanka", are not considered deerstalkers, as they lack fore and aft symmetrical bills, the defining feature of a deerstalker hat.

==Alternative names==
The deerstalker cap is also known as a "fore-and-aft" cap in reference to its front and rear bills. This headgear is also called a "tweed helmet", due to its resemblance in design to the [[balaclava helmet]] worn by officers in the British army during the [[Crimean War]]. It has no connection to the [[pith helmet]].

Because the detective is often depicted wearing a deerstalker in books and theatrical and television films, some people call the cap a "Sherlock".

==Sherlock Holmes==
[[File:Sherlock holmes pipe hat.jpg|thumb|right|A deerstalker (right) along with a [[calabash pipe]] and a [[magnifying glass]], paraphernalia typically associated with [[Sherlock Holmes]]]]
The most famous wearer of a deerstalker is the fictional character [[Sherlock Holmes]], who is popularly depicted as favouring this style of cap.<ref>((Cite journal |last=Jensen |first=Louise |date=10 February 2014 |title=Representations Of Sherlock Holmes |url=https://maas.museum/app/uploads/2017/06/Sherlock-Holmes-Background-Information.pdf |url-status=live |journal=Representations of Sherlock Holmes Master's Thesis |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210302023106/https://maas.museum/app/uploads/2017/06/Sherlock-Holmes-Background-Information.pdf |archive-date=2 March 2021 |access-date=7 September 2020))</ref> Holmes is never explicitly described as wearing a deerstalker by name in [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s stories, although in "[[The Adventure of Silver Blaze]]", the narrator, [[Dr. Watson]], describes him as wearing "his ear-flapped travelling cap",<ref>((Cite web |title=Adventure 1: "Silver Blaze" ((!)) The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ((!)) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ((!)) Lit2Go ETC |url=https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/40/the-memoirs-of-sherlock-holmes/573/adventure-1-silver-blaze/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928232238/https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/40/the-memoirs-of-sherlock-holmes/573/adventure-1-silver-blaze/ |archive-date=28 September 2020 |access-date=7 September 2020 |website=etc.usf.edu))</ref> and in "[[The Boscombe Valley Mystery]]", as wearing a "close-fitting cloth cap".<ref>((Cite web |title=Adventure 4: "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" ((!)) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ((!)) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ((!)) Lit2Go ETC |url=https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/32/the-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes/348/adventure-4-the-boscombe-valley-mystery/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029205831/https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/32/the-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes/348/adventure-4-the-boscombe-valley-mystery/ |archive-date=29 October 2020 |access-date=7 September 2020 |website=etc.usf.edu))</ref> As the deerstalker is the most typical cap of the period matching both descriptions, not surprisingly, the original illustrations for the stories by [[Sidney Paget]] (who favored a deerstalker himself) in the United Kingdom, and [[Frederic Dorr Steele]] in the United States, along with other illustrators of the period, depicted Holmes as a "deerstalker man", which then became the popular perception of him.

Later, less-informed depictions of Holmes have him wearing this cap in the city, failing to take into account the fact that the fashion-conscious Holmes would be loath to commit such a sartorial faux pas; the deerstalker is traditionally a rural outdoorsman's cap.<ref>((Cite web |date=6 March 2017 |title=The International Exhibition Of Sherlock Holmes - Background Information |url=https://maas.museum/app/uploads/2017/06/Sherlock-Holmes-Background-Information.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210302023106/https://maas.museum/app/uploads/2017/06/Sherlock-Holmes-Background-Information.pdf |archive-date=2 March 2021 |access-date=7 September 2020))</ref> It is not appropriate headgear for the properly dressed urban gentleman. Still, while contemporaneous illustrators portrayed Holmes as wearing a deerstalker in the proper setting for such attire, travelling cross-country or operating in a rural outdoor setting, Paget chose to depict Holmes as wearing the deerstalker in London while keeping vigil for the appearance of the murderous [[Colonel Moran]] in illustrations made for "[[The Adventure of the Empty House|The Empty House]]" when the story first appeared in ''[[The Strand Magazine]]'' in 1904.<ref>((Citation |last=Christopher Redmond |title=A Sherlock Holmes Handbook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ysMzTLYQI28C |page=61 |year=1993 |publisher=Dundurn |isbn=978-0-88924-246-3))</ref> This is uncharacteristic of Paget, who most often depicts Holmes wearing a black [[top hat]] and [[frock coat]] in the city, as shown in the Regent Street scene in ''[[The Hound of the Baskervilles]]'', or sporting a black [[bowler hat|bowler]] when wearing a black or plaid [[Inverness cape]] (or, more accurately, a [[wikt:Macfarlane|macfarlane]] cape-coat) as seen in his illustrations for "[[The Blue Carbuncle]]" and "[[The Musgrave Ritual]]", respectively.<ref>''The First & Second Sherlock Holmes Illustrated Omnibus'', edited by John Murray and Jonathan Cape</ref>

==See also==
*[[Stormy Kromer cap]]
*[[List of headgear]]

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