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.

[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)

[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.