Creation of the Shorts

I finally decided to sort through old materials and try and find the nearest colours to match the colours on the shorts in the original painting. I would then try and attempt to create the shorts from scratch with scrap material.
I started of with cutting and tracing round a size 12 block and mark the darts, I then moved onto sewing the darts and seams together leaving gaps at the top so the model would be able to squeeze into them and also enough room to pin them at the top when at the photoshoot.