Ideas...

[Torchwatch]

Those shades of green and cerise (pink) are available for home sewing use, I have used both of them.

The suit design is a mixture of a contour swim suit and a string suit. The elastic was wrapped in cerise Lycra and attached to the suit in the way used when making a string suit. To see a contour swim suit see the orange suit skinnykid is posing in.

It takes more time and skill to make the green and cerise suit properly, factories would rather mass produce a simpler suit.

[Byron]

there you are - I knew Torchwatch would respond.