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One pair. More than one thing.

Draft 04, swim shorts you can train in. Big soft blobs from a pencil sketch, one plain pocket with a K, and fifteen colours on paper.

Draft 04: the same swim shorts in fifteen colour pairs, front view, side by side
Drawings of the design. A sample comes after the first quotes from makers.

One pair. More than one thing. These are swim shorts you can train in. Training and swimming ask for the same things: fabric that dries in minutes, a cut that does not hold you back, and nothing that soaks up water and sags.

It started as a pencil sketch: a pair of shorts covered in large soft blobs, like paint that spilled and dried.

Pencil sketch on paper of shorts with a drawcord, covered in large wavy blobs
Where it started.

Quick-dry fabric with a little stretch, a loose boxy cut, a light mesh liner, mesh pocket bags and a drawcord through two metal eyelets. On the back, one plain pocket: a band in the second colour, a puffy K, and a small eyelet at the bottom that lets the water out.

Close-up of the back pocket, plain olive with a pale yellow band at the top, a puffy pale yellow K and a small eyelet at the bottom
The back pocket.

Fifteen colours on paper. Two come from our hoodie, one from Tee 01.

Colours 1 to 6, each shown front and back, from cream and lilac to navy and pale blue
Colours 1–6, front and back.
Colours 7 to 12, each shown front and back, from plum and sand to slate and coral
Colours 7–12, front and back.
Colours 13 to 15, each shown front and back, and the question which one would you wear
Colours 13–15, front and back.

Tell us which one you would wear, in the comments on Instagram or at hello@kousesh.com. Your picks help us decide what comes next.

Line drawing of the shorts, front and back, with measurements for size M
Measurements, size M.

Every decision so far, from the measurements to the pocket, is on the Draft 04 page.

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