Who needs blue suede shoes with a Presley of Lonmay tartan?
By Ken Banks (Scotsman, April 10, 2004) A SPECIAL tartan has been designed to honour Elvis Presley’s Scottish roots. Experts recently traced the singers roots to the village of Lonmay in Aberdeenshire. Now an official Presley of Lonmay tartan has been created, in blue, grey, green and yellow. The kilt even comes complete with gold accessories such as a sporran engraved with thistles and a bald eagle – linking Scotland and the US. An Elvis lookalike launched the Presley of Lonmay tartan in the village yesterday. Mike King, who designed it, is a director of the Aberdeen menswear and tartan hire family firm Philip King. He hopes the tartan will appeal to fans throughout the world. Mr King, 59, said: “I am very proud of this Presley of Lonmay tartan as I bought his records when I was younger. We used blue to represent the nearby town of Peterhead – the Blue Toon – as well as grey for the skies, green for countryside grass, and yellow for cornfields. The sporran is gold and engraved with th
