Knickerbockers

Browning, King & Company

ca. 1925 · wool · Costume Institute

Plus fours were a style of knickers worn in the 1920s for sporting activities, especially golf. They gained widespread popularity from the Duke of Windsor, who favored wearing them with patterned wool socks. Their name is in reference to the fact that they were four inches longer than classic knickers. The broken herringbone pattern is particularly striking in this example.

Artist

Browning, King & Company

Date

ca. 1925

Medium

wool

Culture

American

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Wesley Wallace Tillotson, 1956