purple shirt of sex
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- (Sherlock fandom slang) A tailored royal-purple dress shirt worn by Sherlock Holmes (portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch) on the television series Sherlock.
- 2014, Lynnette Porter, Benedict Cumberbatch, Transition Completed: Films, Fame, Fans, unnumbered page:
- The play's promotional art features Cumberbatch-as-Sherlock (wearing the character's purple shirt of sex, as fans have called it) in front of a red-and-white heart-shaped bull's eye-style target.
- 2016, Brigid Cherry, Cult Media, Fandom, and Textiles: Handicrafting as Fan Art[1], page 109:
- She stays with the brown and white color scheme, but adds a purple stripe and fringe to the ends to represent Sherlock's “purple shirt of sex.”
- 2020, Esther Zuckerman, A Field Guide to Internet Boyfriends: Meme-Worthy Celebrity Crushes from A to Z, unnumbered page:
- Little did they know, there would soon be legions of fans armed with evidence to the contrary like the button-down that was labeled the “Purple Shirt of Sex,” because, well, it was both fairly low cut and stirred all kinds of feelings.