
Bridget pursues him anyway and persuades him to make love to her on a beach. He returns her love but is more concerned with keeping his job, which he will lose if they are caught. Brash Bridget, an athlete, goes to sports camp and is attracted to one of the coaches. She learns to assert herself and finally wins the family's permission for a final meeting with her lover. She falls in love with a sensitive boy in spite of the fact that their families are having an old-fashioned feud. Shy Lena visits European relatives on an picturesque Greek island. They succeed due to their loyal support of each other, symbolized by a pair of jeans (the "Travelling Pants") that they take turns wearing. The movie follows four teenage girls during a summer in which each goes through a crucial life experience.

Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil After their vacations, they grow-up and their friendship remains solid as ever. Tibby stays in town working in a department store to raise money to buy new equipment for her documentary and is befriended by the twelve year old Bailey that is very ill.


Carmen travels to South Caroline to spend the vacation with her father and she finds that he will marry the divorced Lydia Rodman. Lena visits her family in Greece and has a crush on the local fisherman Kostas and finds that there is a feud between their families. Bridget travels to a soccer camp in Mexico and she has a crush on the coach Eric, who is older than her. In the beginning of their summer vacations, they find a pair of jeans that fits each one of them perfectly they decide to share the pants as a magic symbol of their friendship and form a sisterhood with a manifesto of ten rules. Tibby Tomko-Rollins, Lena Kaligaris, Carmen Lowell and Bridget Vreeland have been best friends since childhood.
