When Holmes fans wore black armbands

[karadinart]

When Arthur Conan Doyle brought about the demise of his most famous character Sherlock Holmes, 20,000 people canceled their subscriptions to the Strand Magazine, where the stories were published. Young men wore black armbands and young women wore black in mourning. Queen Victoria was not amused.

In homage to those early fellow fans, I’m not wearing a black armband on Monday after the Reichenbach Fall airs - I’m wearing my Deerstalker to the Once and Future Worlds Greatest Detective, and you are welcome to join me!

(in the show Ben wears a brown plaid, but here he's in herringbone tweed.)

Comments

[mercurella.livejournal.com]

l'll join you!!!!, but me being me has to be a bit macabre so I had to make a nice little mourning hat for the occasion.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

Oh a top hat with the big black bows?

[mercurella.livejournal.com]

in time! but for today I just made a little ribbony black pillbox like one of the illustrations I found in a compilation book of The Strand I'll post a picture of it on my journal.

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Nearly every day is tweed-wearing day in our house. What, you think I just plucked the name from nowhere?


Do have to just mention, though, that the hat in the big pic is herringbone tweed. Like Mr Tweed's new jacket :-)

This is houndstooth:houndstooth (http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/616972/616972,1279227274,13/stock-photo-houndstooth-tweed-fabric-background-57225928.jpg)

[karadin.livejournal.com]

Haha, yep, you got me, it's herringbone. I like both of these hats, so I'm going to get both styles. I really liked Jeremy Brett's soft grey hat and matching driving coat.

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

The one with the hood, yes. Although my absolute favourite outfit is the "my, I am sooooo fine, aren't I?" very best suit, silk cravat, tiepin and shiny topper that he wore to interview Lord Holdhurst in The Naval Treaty. Closely followed by the summer linens, same ep. Oh, and the Homburg of Awesome.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

Such fantastic costuming on that show. *happy sigh*
Not that I don't love Benedict's ever shrinking suits ... but it would be nice to see him in something formal, or John in his dress mess.

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Well, they do say the writers have their fingers on fandom's pulse, and there is a lot of "ooh, military John, we like" after Hound, so you never know.

Watching DANC atm, mentioning of costumes made me yearn. Lab coat; watch chains; David Burke!Watson - soo cute.

[stupid-drawings.livejournal.com]

I will do this assuming my deerstalker happens. It should turn up...

It's funny, it wasn't until he showed up in the deerstalker that I recalled that my first year in college I won the school's costume contest for dressing up as Sherlock Holmes with a capelet over a long coat, a pipe, and a deerstalker. I don't know how I had forgotten this, I was one of two people dressed up that day.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

It's fun how you can remember you were into something as a kid, it's great if it can come back in different forms, and of course, the kids love it.