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Surprisingly, Arthur Conan Doyle never mentions a deerstalker hat in his Sherlock Holmes stories, though he describes Holmes s  sharp, eager face framed in his ear-flapped travelling cap in  Silver Blaze. It was the original illustrator, Sidney Paget, who added this detail to scenes of Holmes in the country (it would have mens hats baseball been inappropriate to wear a deerstalker in town, where a top hat or homburg would have been more likely choices). The curved meerschaum pipe associated with Holmes was not in the Doyle stories, either: it was the choice of actor William Gillette and stuck with the character.

 The Specialist mens hats summer  s Hat has become a touchstone for a number of overlapping literary movements (magic realism, slipstream, interstitial, metafiction, fabulation, weird fiction), and there is good reason for this. It infuses tropes drawn from Gothic tales such as Horace Walpole s Castle of Otranto or ghost stories such as M. R. James s classic  Oh, Whistle and I ll Come to You, My Lad with a playfully postmodern sensibility. The story has a peculiar lightness to it, as it weaves together children s games, fairy tales, oral histories, and snatches of poetry whose deliberate awfulness amuses us even as it unsettles us. mens hats trucker

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For all intents and purposes, the monstrous apparition of James s story possesses the very same qualities as the Specialist s hat: it is formless and flat, nothing more than crumpled linen and yet somehow indestructible, indescribable and intensely horrible. Like the lamella, it emits a strange noise, and it can move at a terrifying speed. It unsettles because its lack of form speaks to its monstrous immortality; how would you destroy such an entity? Is it even possible? What is it? If we return to the inscription on the whistle, we discover our question is only repeated back to us: Quis est ? Who is this?

It is represented in mens hats for summer a range of literary guises from Poe s maelstrom to the horror at the end of Joseph Conrad s Heart of Darkness to Lovecraft s elder god Cthulhu, a creature who presents such a dangerous vision of the universe that he cannot be seen without causing madness: The Specialist s Hat terrifies us in much the same way that Lovecraft terrifies us: it hints at an encounter with something which is beyond the realm of our experience  death  and yet which is simultaneously so deeply embedded in our own nature that it is always already there .