Hats

[OC Richard]

I cannot imagine myself as a Sherlock Holmes impersonator in a deer stalker...

That's the thing, in a place where it's not all that uncommon a style you would just look like a person wearing a hat.

It reminds me of Western Wear. If a local duded up in Western Wear in Scotland it could be taken as a person impersonating a cowboy. But in Texas they'd just be a person wearing clothes.

BTW I had thought for years that it was illustrator Sidney Paget who had put a Deerstalker on Holmes' head, because he's shown wearing one in stories where his dress isn't mentioned, and in a story in which it's simply described as a "country cap".

But in Silver Blaze it's clearly described as "his earflapped travelling cap". (It's not shown as Houndstooth or any other pattern.)

[jsrnephdoc]

That's the thing, in a place where it's not all that uncommon a style you would just look like a person wearing a hat.

It reminds me of Western Wear. If a local duded up in Western Wear in Scotland it could be taken as a person impersonating a cowboy. But in Texas they'd just be a person wearing clothes.

My wife's father was a "famous" (in quotes because back then they didn't get any mention in the credits) Texas Cowboy movie stuntman, with a shrine in the Ft. Worth "Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame." He was also a sprinter for the U Texas Longhorns, leading to an Olympic Gold in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics and a brief few months with the LA Rams until someone suggested that given his background his knees were more likely to survive celluloid bar fights than collisions with cornerbacks in the NFL. Although Christine grew up in "The Valley," her dad returned back to his roots on a ranch near Graham, TX after he retired from the movie business. Every time we went to see him I marveled at the sheer NUMBER of "Stetson" boxes almost functioning as wallpaper stacked against the perimeter of his living room.

He doubled Robert Redford in several films; they weren't exactly friends, living at polar opposites on the political spectrum. But he certainly returned to his roots, papa to two small herds of Longhorns and a few horses "down on the Brazos" and surviving to age 92!

But your comparison of what I might wear to dinner to a guy strutting down the Royal Mile in a Stetson and a pair of Tecovas is certainly unsettling. I'm kilted often enough that I don't feel like a cartoon, and even when my only bit of Celtic wear is a Balmorral, I get lots of truly approving questions and NEVER any rebukes or looks of astonished amusement here in Montana. Indeed, I'd feel more uncomfortable in Western Wear than i do in a Kilt and Argyll or sweater, because the former are more foreign to my own roots.

And I remain curious about what you think of the second red fox dress sporran pic I posted in the active "sporrans" thread.