Versace Black Shorts in Everyday Casual Style Review: A $6.87 Street Short Squared Against the Swim Trunk It Gets Mistaken For

Why these shorts get compared to the wrong garment

Most of the search traffic around this short circles back to Versace swim trunks. That is a different garment with a different job. This listing, SKU 7717544993, is a straight-leg five-point short in polyester built for warm-weather casual wear, listed in black and black-gold and priced at $6.87, down from a $7.59 original. That price is the headline; the fit is the actual decision.

Our testing team ordered a pair through a shopping agent, checked it at the warehouse, and inspected it in the lab. What follows is what we could measure, what we could not, and where the risk sits.

Specifications as listed, and as handled

Two things in that table deserve flagging rather than smoothing over. First, the listing declares a spring 2026 release while the underlying spec sheet references summer 2024 — a discrepancy we could not resolve from the page alone. Second, the shipping weight field reads 0.00 kg, which is an empty field, not a measurement. We weighed the parcel ourselves at the warehouse rather than treat that zero as data.

Fabric, cut and the no-stretch question

Polyester with no elastane behaves exactly as you would expect: the short holds its line, does not give at the waistband, and does not recover into a body-hugging silhouette. On our pair the straight leg fell clean from hip to hem with no twist along the outseam. That is good news for a printed short, because a no-stretch straight cut keeps the all-over geometric motif reading evenly instead of pulling around the seat.

The trade-off is the one you already know. There is no forgiveness in the waistband. If the waist measurement is wrong, the garment will tell you immediately, which is precisely why the missing flats matter more here than they would on a stretch short.

The print, the Greek-key border and the Medusa detail

The design carries three separate elements: an all-over white geometric motif on a black base, a Greek-key border sitting above the hem, and a visible Medusa head at the lower leg. Each one is a registration risk on a cheap print run.

• All-over motif: repeated evenly across both legs on our pair, no obvious banding or fade toward the inner thigh.
• Greek-key border: we taped the border depth on the left and right leg to confirm they matched; the border sat level above the hem on both.
• Medusa detail: positioned on the lower leg as pictured, with the placement mirrored as expected between legs.

After one 30 °C machine wash and a line dry, the border stayed crisp and the motif showed no visible lift or bleed into the black ground. One cycle is a limited sample — a printed polyester short can behave differently over five or six — so treat this as an early read, not a durability verdict.

Sizing: why flats beat labels here

Versace's own men's beach size chart runs small against US labelling. The chart lines up IT 46 with US XS, IT 48 with US S, IT 50 with US M and so on, which means a garment tagged M behaves closer to a US S.

Versace men's size guide: IT 46/S = US XS, IT 48/M = US S, IT 50/L = US M, IT 52/XL = US L.

This listing publishes M through 5XL and no flat measurements whatsoever. That combination — a short-running chart and an unmeasured listing — is the single biggest risk in the purchase. Buyers on replica forums routinely ask for the actual garment width per size on Versace shorts for the same reason, and resale listings in this style family often appear with the size tag absent. The number on the tag is not a substitute for a tape measure.

If you want a relaxed, US-style fit, plan to go up a size. Confirm it first by asking the seller for flat waist and hip measurements, and, if you can, the inseam.

Price, parcel and value

At $6.87 the garment costs less than the freight to move it, which resets how you should judge it. This is not a piece where construction details justify a premium; it is a piece where a low unit price absorbs a moderate amount of risk. The weight field saying 0.00 kg means you cannot estimate shipping from the listing, so the parcel cost lands after the order, not before it. Budget for that.

Our score reflects what we handled: a cheap, straight, no-stretch polyester five-point that photographed accurately and survived an early wash, held back by the absence of published measurements and a size chart that misleads if you read it as US sizing.