View Poll Results: Thumbs up or thumbs down?
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"Young, understated and strong" I like it!
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Dour, sombre and inappropriate for a wedding tartan. Hate it!
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Eah. I can take it or leave it.
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"Royal Pride" tartan: wedding or funeral
Has anyone weighed in yet with an opinion on the royal engagement/wedding commemorative tartan designed by McCalls and woven by Lochcarron? Royal Pride is supposed to celebrate the marriage of Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. Personally, I think it's better suited for a funeral! Queen Victoria would not be amused, and she wore black for the last 40 years of her life!
Vicki Charron, shopkeeper
Don't let the French Canadian name fool you! There's Irish and Scot blood in me, too!
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Well, I think it's a nice enough looking tartan, I would likely wear it to either event. Since "Eah. I can take it or leave it", was my attitude towards the royal wedding anyway, that connection doesn't effect my opinion.
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I posted "take it or leave it".
There's a fad for grey-scale tartans nowadays, and they're OK for what they are. (They are sort of like viewing a normal tartan on a Black & White television set.)
This tartan strikes my eye as a bit strange because it's got that one colour overlaid upon a grey-scale tartan... like those advertisements which have a B&W closeup of a model's face, but the eyes are coloured in a bright blue.
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Nothing happy or hopeful about that tartan
Humor, is chaos; remembered in tranquillity- James Thurber
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I think I would best classify this tartan as inoffensive. Nothing spectacular, but nothing horrid.
Etcheberri Steaphan MacDňmhnall - See my avatar for the fabric I am currently working with.
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 Originally Posted by Tartan Tess
Nothing happy or hopeful about that tartan
Exactly, Tartan Tess! It's a wedding, for cryin' out loud. It would make a suitable mourning tartan for Princess Diana, since the sapphire blue is indicative of her famous ring. But where's the joy, optimism that should be associated with a wedding?
Vicki Charron, shopkeeper
Don't let the French Canadian name fool you! There's Irish and Scot blood in me, too!
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Originally Posted by Tartan Tess
Nothing happy or hopeful about that tartan
Nor youthful, neither. I think it would have made my uncle, the mortician, stop short, stare in disbelief, shrug, and wander away without comment.
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Do the language laws in Quebec really require you to hire a mime who doesn't speak French if you hire one who doesn't speak English? Could a mime who doesn't speak either fill both roles at the same time? (Thanks to Calvin Trillin.)
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Thanks, Dale-O-Cedars for posting that image. I was still looking for one I have of the couple and the tartan, so you saved me the trouble. (Really must get my pic files organized some day soon!)
Vicki Charron, shopkeeper
Don't let the French Canadian name fool you! There's Irish and Scot blood in me, too!
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It's a fashion tartan... so who cares?
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