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The Hats on BBC’s Sherlock

In the BBC show, the deerstalker hat, The Atlantic writes, “makes an ironic appearance in Sherlock; Cumberbatch impulsively dons one to hide his face from the paparazzi, only to have it become his trademark. (His humiliating nom de tabloid is Hat Detective.)”

In illustrations and on the show, many hats of the time are worn by Sherlock, as well as Watson. Hats such as the top hat, and the boater, or skimmer, which is a wide, flat, staw hat. Victorian age men frequently (daily) wore a various array of gentleman’s hats, and the top hat might be the most recognizable of these, with it’s long elegant lines and association with men holding a can, or wearing spectacles.