The Importance of Costumes in The Adventures of Sherlock Homes by Meagan Cufr

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Have you ever gone on an adventure? Traveled to great unknowns and saved a princess from a dragon. While you were saving the princess, you were probably dressed up in a prince costume. Costumes are important to help you get into character and play your part. Sherlock Holmes does this in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Throughout the book Sherlock uses costumes to help him get into character while solving a case. Sherlock dresses up as a drunkard, a clergy man, and an old man.
The first costume Sherlock used was a drunkard. A drunkard is suspected to be dumb because he is drunk and he does not look that professional. How many times have you seen a drunkard and think they have no right to know anything important because they could tell people they are not supposed to tell, while they were drunk.
It was close upon four before the door opened, and a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. Accustomed as I was to my friend’s amazing powers in the use of disguises, I had to look th...

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