They also show him a pair of vivid, prismatic plus fours. His friends and Charlotte immediately object to the plus fours. Based on "The Magic Plus Fours", later collected in "The Heart of a Goof". Without the plus fours, he begins to feel uncertain of himself like he used to. Tweed is preferable to corduroy or cotton, and he personally prefers plus fours. Golfers' "plus twos" and "plus fours" are breeches of this type. J. H. Thorpe illustrated "The Magic Plus Fours" and "The Awakening of Rollo Podmarsh". Tintin, the comic book character from "The Adventures of Tintin", famously wears plus fours.