Dress like a Movie Star for less

Dress like a Movie Star for less

Staying with the movie theme, I noticed Bonhams recently held a large sale of movie costumes in Knightsbridge, London. One of the more expensive items sold was a suit worn by Irish James Bond Pierce Brosnan, in the movie Goldeneye (1996). Tweed featured prominently, including the sale of a Tweed Jacket worn by Sean Connery in the movie Cuba (1979) and, speaking of James Bond, David Niven’s brown and green checked Tweed Jacket from Casino Royale (1967)

Amongst my personal favourites were a tweed suit and hat worn by Sean Connery in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) and a brown herringbone tweed suit worn by Donald Sutherland during The Eye of the Needle (1981).

On the accessory front, a tweed hat worn by Peter Sellers in two Pink Panther movies also fetched several thousand pounds (ours are a little less expensive), and even Tweed Waistcoats (with matching trousers) made an impression, with two worn by Scottish actor & comedian Billy Connolly in Mrs Brown (1997).

Needlessly to say, you can create your own movie star image with a little help from Murphy of Ireland’s Tweed Jackets and Donegal tweed caps . We have even, on occasion, made tweed suits to fulfill special requests from customers

Bullet Proof Tweed !

A Tweed Jacket can save a President’s Life
Another great story, and perhaps on of the bravest speeches ever given, concerned Teddy Roosevelt. The story goes that in 1912, in Milwaukee, he was getting ready to give a speech as part of his presidential campaign. As he stepped on the platform, he was shot by a man who’d been stalking him for weeks. The speech was in the breast pocket of his tweed jacket and the combination of the paper and tweed took enough energy out of the bullet to save his life. Having felt like the wind had been knocked out of him, he apparently continued on and gave the speech – remarkable!

If you need a Donegal Tweed Jacket to save your life too, we’d be only too happy to oblige…