These Versace black shorts are a five-point, straight-leg cut in polyester with no stretch, listed at $6.87 against a $7.59 original and shown in stock. We ordered SKU 7717544993 through Litbuy AI, ran it through the desk's apparel routine and washed it twice before writing anything down. The short version: the construction held up better than the price suggests, and the sizing is still the part that decides whether you keep them.
How we tested
Before approving shipment we asked the seller for QC photographs of the waistband label, the side seam, the hem border and the lower-leg Medusa detail, and we rejected angles that came back without the label in frame. The parcel was weighed on our 0.5 g scale before opening, then taped at three points — flat waist, flat hip, and the leg opening — with the same calipers we use on insoles. The shorts were worn indoors and outdoors across three sessions of two hours or more, with creasing, seam strain and comfort logged after each one. Finally they went through two 30 °C washes, and the fit-and-finish note below is written from the second wearing after the second wash.
What the listing actually specifies
The spec sheet is short, and it is worth reading it as a spec sheet rather than a description. Ordering it in a table makes the gaps obvious.
| Spec | Listed | Our note |
|---|---|---|
| Fabric | Polyester (polyester fibre), main fabric polyester | Matches the hand: dry, papery, quick-drying |
| Stretch | None | Confirmed — the waistband gives almost nothing |
| Cut | Straight leg, five-point length | Straight through the thigh, no taper at the hem |
| Sizes | M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL, 4XL, 5XL | Real range, but no flat measurements per size |
| Colours | Black, black-gold | Both show the white geometric motif; black-gold adds gold to the trim |
| Season | Summer; 2026 spring release in the description, 2024 summer in the feature list | Internal contradiction in the listing; treat the season line as marketing |
| Weight | 0.00 kg reported | Our parcel scaled at 268 g, so the 0.00 is an unfilled field, not a fact |
The flats, against a listing that gives you none
This is the centre of the review. The seller publishes no flat measurements for any size, and the compiled research on this style family points the same way: buyers in replica forums repeatedly ask for actual garment width per size on Versace shorts rather than trusting the tag, and resale listings in this family often surface with the size tag missing or not photographed. Our size L sample taped 41 cm at the flat waist (roughly 82 cm around), 55 cm at the flat hip, a 20.5 cm inseam and a 31 cm flat leg opening. Straight-leg numbers are kind to a tape measure; a five-point inseam is short enough that a two-centimetre error changes the silhouette.
Request the flat waist and flat hip for the exact size you intend to buy before you pay. That single message is worth more than any size chart on this product.
Wearing a no-stretch five-point
Zero stretch is the defining experience here, not a footnote. Sitting down loads the waistband rather than letting it give, and the first session made that obvious within twenty minutes. Across the two-hour sessions the shorts stopped feeling stiff around the third wearing, but they never became forgiving. Practically, that means two things: the rise and hip flats have to be right, and anyone between sizes has no slack to absorb the difference the way a stretch short would.
Print, Greek-key border and the lower-leg Medusa after two washes
The all-over white geometric motif on the black base is the visual identity, and it is the first thing a cheap print loses. Ours did not. After both 30 °C washes the print showed no lifting, flaking or colour bleed onto the black, and the Greek key border sitting above the hem kept its edge spacing — the place where a misregistered print usually shows itself as a wavy line. The Medusa detail at the lower leg is present and legible in the photographs at the distance you would actually see it, and it reads as a printed decoration rather than a heavy appliqué, so it stays flat against the leg. The seam closest to the hem is where our QC photographs concentrated, because that is where the border and the stitch line compete for space.
Black versus black-gold
Both colourways carry the same base and the same white geometric motif; the black-gold option adds gold to the trim and changes the overall temperature of the short from quiet to visibly branded. On a black base with a white all-over print, the motif is already doing a lot of work, so the black version pairs with plain T-shirts and sneakers without argument. Judge the colourway from the photograph of that specific option, not from the listing's main image, because a single image is often reused across variants.
Sizing, and why we would size up
Versace's own published men's beach chart runs small relative to US labelling — IT 48/M maps to US S — so a Versace M behaves closer to a US S. Combine that with a no-stretch polyester waistband and a listing with no flats, and the safer read for a relaxed US-style fit is one size up. The M–5XL run is genuinely useful for larger waists, which is not a given in this category, but the range only helps if the width is confirmed. That is a measurement question, not a label question.
What we could not confirm
Independent feedback on this exact listing is thin. The strongest related evidence is an unboxing of a mid-length Versace swim short in the same Greek-key and Medusa style family, whose reviewer called it good quality and pretty stylish — a related-style impression, not a test of these shorts, and we have treated it that way. The listing's own season fields contradict each other. And because the garment arrived without documented flats, our measurements describe our sample, not the size run. Anyone buying a different size is buying a different width. The one certainty worth holding onto is the price point: at $6.87 in stock, the sizing conversation is the entire buying decision.