Xmarks "Kings Speech" thread mentioned in Dublin press
The current discussion about the tartan worn in the movie "The King's Speech" http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...-speech-63781/ was itself referenced in a news article about the same from the Evening Herald in Ireland.
Scots furious as King's Speech shows Firth wearing Irish tartan
By Paul Drury
Tuesday January 25 2011
Tartan experts in Scotland have been left speechless by the highland dress worn by actor Colin Firth in the Oscar-tipped movie The King's Speech. Historians believe the man who would be king is wearing an Irish kilt as he makes his way to Balmoral.
And the sporran adorning his royal frontage dates from a Lanarkshire manufacturer of the 21st century -- not the 1930s.
*SNIP*
The curious choice of highland dress -- the tartan is believed to be a 1997 Co Kerry -- has sparked a furious debate among the kilted cognoscenti world-wide.
They have flooded the tartan lovers' website Xmarksthescot with their views.
Full article here
Best regards,
Jake
[B]Less talk, more monkey![/B]
Bookmarks