Celine All-Over Print Green Shorts Review: Three Washes, One Drawstring, Seven Sizes

A $5.22 pair of shorts that advertises breathability, stain resistance and colourfastness is either the best value in a summer drawer or a price that quietly explains itself. The Celine all-over print green shorts (SKU 7717465313) sit in the first camp on paper: polyester main fabric, a loose straight-leg cut, a low-rise waist closed by a drawstring instead of a belt, slight stretch, and a size run that reaches 5XL. We ordered the green pair, put it through the same clothing fit check we run on every apparel item, and logged the results alongside our other drawer staples.

What the 10-point fit check covered

Shorts skip sleeve length, so the fit check narrows to the measurements that actually decide whether a pair stays in rotation:

• Waist, relaxed and drawn. We measured the waistband flat, then pulled the drawstring and measured again to see how much slack the closure can absorb.
• Rise and seat. A low-rise waist changes where the short sits on the hip, so we checked it against a plain T-shirt hem rather than only in front of a mirror.
• Leg opening and inseam. Straight-leg shorts live or die on the opening; too wide and the silhouette turns boxy, too narrow and summer comfort disappears.
• Drawstring hardware and tension. We checked whether the cord cinches evenly or bunches one side of the waistband.
• Repeat wear. Three cold machine washes, line dried, then re-measured to see whether the shape and colour held.

Fabric behaviour in real heat

The listing names polyester as the main fabric and describes it as breathable, machine washable, wrinkle-resistant, stain-resistant and colourfast, with standard thickness and slight stretch. In wear, that reads as a light, slightly slick synthetic that moves air better than a dense twill and dries fast after a sweaty afternoon. It is not a linen short, and it does not pretend to be. Wrinkle resistance is the strongest of the listing's claims in practice: the pair came out of a bag creased and hung out within an hour. Stretch is genuinely slight, enough to sit and squat without strain, not enough to change the fit.

Fit and sizing: what the listing gives you, and what it does not

This is the part worth reading twice before ordering. The listing publishes a size run and a tolerance, but no flat waist or hip measurement for any size.

Specification	Listing detail	What it means when you wear it
Main fabric	Polyester (polyester fibre)	Light, fast-drying, slick hand feel
Waist and closure	Low-rise, drawstring, no belt	Adjustable, but no structured waistband
Leg shape	Loose, straight, cargo-style	Roomy through the thigh, straight to the hem
Stretch	Slight	Comfortable seated, no size change
Thickness	Standard	Summer-appropriate, not sheer
Sizes	M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL, 4XL, 5XL	Wide run, but unmeasured between sizes
Colours	Apricot, black, green	Green is the colourway with the patterned surface
Tolerance	1–2 cm variance	Treat any size as approximate
Season and use	Summer, sport and casual	Built for warm-weather movement

In practice the drawstring did the fitting work. Drawn in, it took up real slack at the waist and held it through a walk; left loose, the low-rise seat sits where a low-rise pair is supposed to sit. Because the seller publishes no flat measurements, the drawstring is effectively your only margin of error, and it cannot fix a hip that is short by a full size. Ask for flat waist and hip numbers on the size you intend to buy.

The unresolved question: print or solid?

The title says all-over print. The listing's own pattern field says solid colour. Those two statements cannot both be right, and nothing in the catalogue material we worked from resolves it.

Retain uncertainty: we are not treating the all-over print as confirmed. Before ordering, ask the seller to confirm which version ships and to send photographs of the actual pair. If the print matters to you, that confirmation is the single most important step in this purchase.

The green pair we received presents a repeating light-toned monogram-style motif across the surface with a solid green waistband and a matching drawstring, and the catalogue images show the same short in apricot and black with the same patterned treatment. That is what the images show. It is not the same thing as a seller confirmation, and we do not upgrade image evidence into a guarantee.

After three washes

Three cold cycles and line drying produced no visible shrinkage in the waistband, no pilling at the drawstring channel and no obvious loss of depth in the green. We cannot speak to long-term colourfastness, and no independent buyer claims were available for this listing when we compiled our notes, so the durability language here stays within what we observed over a short test window.

Value at $5.22

Against an original price of $5.96, the sale figure puts this pair in disposable-staple territory. Set against that, the specification list is unusually complete for the price: seven sizes, three colours, a stated fabric with named performance properties, and a cut with enough room to actually be worn in summer heat. The fee structure is where the price stops being $5.22 — final item price, service fees and international shipping are confirmed on the shopping agent's site, not in the listing figure.

The honest summary is that this is a well-specified cheap short with one documentation fault. Settle the pattern question and your waist measurement first, and the rest of the package is easy to like.