Deerstalker

"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.

'I don't want to stand out,' he explained.”[citation needed] 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 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.

Deerstalkers may be made of solid-coloured material, but they are most often found with houndstooth check, herringbone, or plaid patterns in the twill of a fabric that serves as camouflage.

The "sportsman's deerstalker" is made with a brim around the cap, narrow at the sides, but which may be elongated in front or back, omitting the separate double bills.

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

The most famous wearer of a deerstalker is the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, who is popularly depicted as favouring this style of cap.

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 Sebastian Moran in illustrations made for "The Empty House" when the story first appeared in The Strand Magazine in 1904.