PLUS POURS FOR WOMEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19456, 12 October 1926, Page 5

PLUS POURS FOR WOMEN.

At a recent mid-season show, given by a fashionable modiste in London, a mannequin appeared wearing plus fours of sunret pink tweed. The coloured hose tops were intensely admired, for the feminine touch had inspired pretty coloured tops of pink and heatJlor coloured tartan -with a "flash" of purple silk. Tl* brogues were distractingly neat, and a felt hat turned down all the way round and a buttonhole of wild anemones, made of pink kid, completed the effect. The mannequin carried a shooting stick, but no handbag, for there were large, roomy pockets. "Women have taken to plus fours," said the modiste with the air of one whose ideals have begun to take shape. "Yes, we are kept busy making them for the Scottish season. "They are very successful in blue, heather and pink, as well as grey, brown and the popular pepper and salt shade. "Do women look well in them ? Well, some do, the slim, middle-sized women in particular. The very tall, angular woman and tho short, stout woman arc not successes, though unfortunately these are tho very types that come and ask for them "But on the whole, they look no worse than some men do in plus fours." Men are looking on grimly at this latest poaching on their preserves. They know now that there is nothing left to them for women to copy. The smokingsuit was bad enough—but plus fours!