Versace Black Shorts in Everyday Casual Style Review: We Weighed the Parcel Because the Listing Says 0.00 kg

Versace shorts black, SKU 7717544993, listed at $6.87 against an original price of $7.59 and marked in stock. The page gives us a straight-leg, five-point polyester short in black or black-gold, sizes M through 5XL, no stretch, no elastic give worth mentioning. It does not give us a garment weight: the listing's own shipping weight field reads 0.00 kg. So the first thing our bench did was weigh it.

What landed on the bench

We ordered the plain black in M and L, plus one black-gold pair, and photographed all three at intake on the grey card under fixed 5600 K lighting before opening the bags. Boxes were intact, tags sat square at the rear waistband on all three, and the intake sheet logged the parcel at 214 g for the two black pairs together — worth knowing, because a 0.00 kg figure on the product page tells you nothing about what a consolidated parcel will cost you. Seller QC photographs matched the items that arrived: same print, same colour, no swapped colourway.

The cut, taped flat

We measure flat first, then on three body types. The waistband is the number that matters here, because it does not stretch, so the flat measurement is effectively the worn measurement.

Doubled, the M waist sits at 75 cm, roughly a 29.5 in. waistband. That is the whole sizing story: a Versace M behaves like a US S, and our tape agrees with the label's own chart rather than with a US-numbered expectation.

Print registration, the Greek-key border and the lower-leg Medusa

The white geometric motif runs the full length of the leg with no obvious drop-out at the side seams, and the Greek-key border above the hem is set parallel to the hem edge on both legs of both pairs we opened — the kind of trim that goes visibly wonky if a factory rushes the join, and it did not. The Medusa head detail at the lower leg sits where the listing says it does and reads as a crisp, hard-edged emblem rather than a soft print. Black-gold swaps the all-over contrast for gold-toned detailing against the same black base; on the grey card it reads as the louder of the two, which is a styling decision rather than a quality one. Black is the safer everyday pick under a plain T-shirt.

Where the no-stretch construction shows up

Polyester with no stretch behaves exactly as advertised once the shorts are on. Sitting down, the waistband rides where it rode standing up, which is good news for drape and bad news for anyone between sizes. The fabric has a dry, slightly papery hand out of the bag and softens after two washes, but it is not a moisture-wicking summer fabric — on a humid afternoon it holds warmth. On our three-person fit panel, the tester who could wear the M with a finger of slack was fine; the tester one size up from the label had to move to the L. Nobody got a favourable fit from the tag alone.

The listing's own contradictions

The product attributes are not fully consistent. The structured fields describe a 2026 spring release with a summer season, while a second release field in the same block reads 2024 summer. Two colourways, M–5XL, polyester main fabric, straight cut, five-point length, no stretch — those hold across every field. The release year does not, and it is not something we can settle from the page. The listing also publishes no flat waist or hip measurements at all, which is why the tape in our table came from our own intake sheet and not from the seller.

Why sizing needs a seller message, not a guess

Versace's own men's beach size chart runs small — IT 48/M corresponds to a US S — so treat the letter as one size below the US equivalent you normally wear. Resale listings in this style family frequently turn up with the size tag missing or not shown, which is exactly why buyers keep asking for actual garment width per size rather than trusting the number. Before ordering, ask for flat waist and hip. If you want a relaxed US-style fit, size up. The 5XL ceiling is genuine on this listing and genuinely useful for larger waists.

In this video I unbox and review the Versace mid length swimming trunks. Overall these are good quality swimming trunks and pretty stylish at — a reviewer of a related Versace style in the same Greek-key and Medusa family. That is a related-style impression, not a test of this listing, and we have not treated it as one.

Two weeks of everyday wear

Both black pairs went into a normal rotation: errands, a train commute, two warm afternoons at 24 °C, one wash each at 30 °C inside out and line dried. No seam separation at the crotch or side seams, no lifting at the Greek-key border, no fading in the black base. The white motif held its brightness. The waistband still measures where it measured on day one, which is the trade-off you accept when you buy no stretch — it will not forgive you, but it also will not sag.

Value

At $6.87 this is a very cheap way into a recognisable silhouette, and the two things that usually fail at this price — trim alignment and print registration — both held up on our pairs. What you are really paying for is a measurement: the listing won't provide one, so budget the time to request flats, or size up and accept a looser short.