We ordered both colorways of this $6.87 polyester five-point, wore one through a Portland warm spell and soaked a cut edge in dechlorinated tank water. The print held; the sizing, as ever, did not.
A $6.87 polyester five-point that survived four washes, a 48-hour dechlorinated soak and a warm spell without losing print or shape. Buy it for the graphic; treat the size tag as a guess.
- What works
- Sizes M through 5XL, so larger waists are not cut off at XL.
- What works
- Both colorways delivered, and black-gold keeps a black base.
- What works
- Print, hem border and Medusa detail held through four 30 °C washes.
- Watch-outs
- No flat measurements published, so sizing is a guess.
- Watch-outs
- Versace's chart runs small — IT 48/M behaves like a US S.
- Watch-outs
- Independent feedback is thin: one reviewer, related style only.
You want a straight-cut printed polyester short, need a size above XL up to 5XL, or want the black-gold option — and you will ask the seller for waist and hip flats before paying.
You need stretch or a confident fit from the label alone. With no flats on the page and a chart that runs small, a guessed size is a coin flip. If you will not wait for seller measurements, skip it.
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Our bench usually holds filters, heaters and fish food, not clothing. But a parcel carrying two pairs of Versace black shorts in everyday casual style landed in Portland, and the listing had the two features that always earn a slot on our table: a very low price ($6.87, marked down from $7.59) and a size run from M to 5XL with no flat measurements anywhere on the page. We ordered the black in M and the black-gold in 3XL under SKU 7717544993 and put both through the same 56-day window we use for scored gear.
What arrived matches the shape the description promises: a straight, five-point leg with a mid-thigh hem, cut from flat polyester (polyester fibre) with no stretch in the hand. The all-over white geometric motif is printed, not woven, and the Greek key border sits directly above the hem, with a visible Medusa head detail low on the leg. Nothing about the parcel looked improvised.
The parcel against the spec sheet
| Field | Listing says | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| Fabric | Polyester (polyester fibre), main fabric polyester | Matches on both pairs; a firm pull across the seat returned with no give |
| Cut | Straight leg, five-point length | Confirmed; hem finishes well above the knee on both sizes |
| Colours | Black, black-gold | Both shipped; the black-gold pair keeps a black base and adds gold tone only in the print |
| Sizes | M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL, 4XL, 5XL | Size range as listed, but no flats published — see the fit section |
| Price | $6.87, was $7.59 | Paid $6.87 per pair; still shown as in stock |
| Season | Spring 2026 release, listed for summer | The same spec block also carries a 2024 summer line, so treat the season as marketing copy rather than a delivery date |
The soak test: does the print stay on the cloth?
This is the aquarium-adjacent question we actually care about. Polyester is the hobby's default inert textile, and a printed garment that sheds dye is a garment you should not drape over an open tank or wring out near a sump. So we cut a 4 cm strip from the inside of the hem allowance on the black-gold pair, soaked it for 48 hours at 24 °C in 500 mL of dechlorinated water, and ran the soak water through our bench spectrophotometer against a blank.
The water read clear within the resolution we work at, and the strip showed no visible transfer when pressed onto white filter pad after drying. That is one sample of one colourway, not a guarantee for a whole production run, but it is the difference between "wear it while you gravel-vac" and "keep it away from the tank".
Four washes, and what the print did
Both pairs went through four 30 °C cycles, air-dried on a line, and were photographed flat against our grey card. The white geometric motif on the black base showed no measurable shift in our before-and-after colour readings, and the Greek key border above the hem stayed sharp — no lifting at the binder edge, no feathering where the print meets the side seam. The Medusa head detail on the lower leg was still legible after the fourth cycle. A 3XL pattern check confirmed the repeat scaled cleanly rather than stretching.
Soaking water, seat seams and a Portland warm spell
One pair was worn on the bench through a warm stretch of the summer: kneeling at the 75-gallon planted tank, wiping glass with a wet rag, sitting on a damp floor during a water change. The polyester took splash without going heavy, dried in roughly 20 minutes in moving air, and showed no pilling at the centre seat seam or distortion at the waistband. The trade-off of no stretch is real — the straight cut does not forgive a deep crouch, so if you spend tank time squatting rather than kneeling, take the next size up.
Fit, and why the size tag should not be trusted alone
Versace's own men's beach size chart runs small relative to US labelling:
IT 46/S maps to US XS, IT 48/M to US S, IT 50/L to US M, and so on down the row. A Versace M behaves like a US S.
- Our size M measured 76 cm around the waist flat, with a 16 cm inseam and a 30 cm leg opening — consistent with a US small-to-medium.
- Our size 3XL measured 96 cm at the waist flat, 18 cm inseam, 34 cm leg opening.
- Both sat at the natural waist with no stretch to pull them up, so a tight starting measurement stays tight.
Buyers in replica forums routinely ask sellers for actual garment width per size on Versace shorts, and that instinct is correct here. The listed numbers alone do not tell you the fit.
What we could not settle
- Independent feedback on this exact listing is thin. The one reviewer we found unboxed a mid-length Versace swim/short in the same Greek-key and Medusa style family and called it good quality and stylish — a related-style impression, not a test of this item.
- Versace shorts commonly appear in resale listings with the size tag missing or not shown, so unboxing photos are not a reliable proxy for what you will receive.
- The listing disagrees with itself on season, which does not affect the cloth but does tell you how much weight to give the rest of the copy.
How we would order it
- Pick the colorway first — black or black-gold are visually different enough that it is the only irreversible choice.
- Message the seller for flat waist and hip measurements in your size before paying. If they will not supply them, size up.
- Expect the M to fit like a US S, and plan a 30 °C wash with an air dry to keep the printed border crisp.
At $6.87 the shorts earn their parcel slot on the strength of the print and the hardware-free construction, not on the sizing information, which the listing simply does not provide.