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Summary: City shorts are great fashion designs for working in an office environment. Draw fashion for city shorts in this fashion illustration video series with a fashion designer.
Laurel Armstrong is in graduate school for fashion design and is knowledgeable about everything fashion: design, sketching, pattern drafting, draping, sewing construction, etc. Laurel...read more
"Here I have shown how to draw a pair of city, I call them city shorts. You can call them I don't really know knee length shorts, like trouser style shorts. They're more appropriate for wearing out or if you have not a strict suit dress code at your office. These work totally well in a work setting because they're modest. They go down to the knees. You can wear them with heels. They're basically like a pair of slacks but they're just cut off at the knee. So it's very, very versatile with what you can do with them. They're honestly one of my favorite things to do because the possibilities are truly endless. You can wear them with flats. A baggy shirt. You can wear them like I have here with a summer shirt. But the whole point of city shorts as I call them is that they go to a certain length. They are definitely past. They don't have to go all the way past your knee. They can go definitely past mid thigh. You want them, if they are this kind of short, you want them definitely past here because otherwise it's kind of like camp shorts, I don't know what you call them but you want them, if you're going to wear them to the office, think about that, you don't want your thighs hanging out everywhere. You want simple decorum and a sense of propriety. So they're pretty much just a straight legged short. You can do them wider if you want, skinner if you want. It's all up to you."
eHow Article: Fashion Design for City Shorts