The Trouser Skirt

Series

Series Name
Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.
519
Date Released
14 May 1931
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 2A Super Nursery
  2. 3Real Gold Diggers
  3. 4The Putter
  4. 5The Trouser Skirt

Story

Story No. within this Issue
5 / 5
Summary
NoS Summary - Senorita de Alvarez playing tennis in a novel divided skirt or "trouser skirt".
British Pathe synopsis: "The ladies’ tennis world is now concerned over the old question of dress - Shall Eve wear shorts, trousers, or the new divided skirt like Senorita de Alvarez?" M/S of Senorita de Alvarez playing tennis in a divided skirt. "The Senorita prefers this method of obtaining perfect freedom for the most lofty leaps and bounds." More footage of her game.
Keywords
Fashion and costume
Written sources
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.212
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No. EP212 Used for synopsis
National Film Archive Catalogue
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