We ordered the Palm Angels Capri Shorts and wore them through court sessions and a 20 km route. At $3.73 the wrinkle-free polyester holds up, but confirm the colourway before shipping.
- Hands-on score
- 4.2 / 5
- Editor verdict
- A thin, wrinkle-free polyester short in a loose five-point cut that wore cleanly through court sessions and a 20 km route. The $3.73 price is the story; the loose print edges and the yellow-versus-black colourway confusion are the caveats.
Who this suits
Summer shoppers who want a loose, unlined polyester short with a recognisable printed motif and are happy to have their agent confirm the colourway, flat waist and outseam before shipping.
Who should look elsewhere
Buyers who need stretch, verified fit for this exact SKU, or a fitted cut. Also skip if you cannot accept a colour that differs from the black implied by the page title.
Editor score 4.2 / 5
We ordered the Palm Angels Capri Shorts through the Kako Buy agent flow at $3.73, down from a listed $4.40, and opened the parcel on camera the day tracking closed. The listing is a little contradictory on arrival: the name says capri, the construction notes say five-point short, and the SEO copy points at black while the colour field offers Cool K344 Yellow and Cool K344 Blue-Black. Untangling that took most of our first week with them.
What we ordered
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Brand | Palm Angels |
| SKU | 7720603668 |
| Price paid | $3.73 USD (listed $4.40) |
| Availability | In stock |
| Colours offered | Cool K344 Yellow, Cool K344 Blue-Black |
| Sizes | M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL, 4XL, 5XL |
| Fabric | Polyester, thin, no stretch, non-iron finish, no fleece lining |
| Cut | Mid-rise elastic waist with drawstring, straight leg, loose, five-point length |
| Design | Allover illustrated face motif over a solid base |
Our test pair came in size L, which is what our 178 cm tester wears in most loose-cut shorts. We weighed the garment with and without packaging, then logged both numbers in the fit table alongside the flat measurements taken on the bench.
Fabric, seams and the 10x loupe pass
The shell is the part of this product that surprised us. It is genuinely thin — you can read print through a single layer held to a window — and it carries the non-iron finish the catalog claims. We pulled it straight out of the wash bag, hung it for twenty minutes and wore it without touching an iron.
Under the 10x loupe, the waistband channel is stitched evenly with no skipped runs, and the drawstring exits through properly finished eyelets. Panel alignment at the inseam and hem is straight on the pair we received. The printed face motif is the weak point at close range: the edges of the illustration are slightly soft where the ink meets the solid base, and the print sits on the surface rather than sinking into the fibre. That is normal for a print at this price, and the 1–3 cm tolerance the listing quotes means two pairs from the same batch will not sit identically on the body.
“the white stripes should be more on the side w more space between the pocket” — QC poster on budget Palm Angels shorts, r/FashionReps
Placement details are where budget Palm Angels pieces draw the most criticism, and this SKU has no independent QC trail of its own. Treat the print position on any photo your agent sends as the item you are actually buying.
Fit and the five-point cut
The cut is loose and deliberate, in line with the skatewear sizing Palm Angels describes across its range. Because the fabric has no stretch, the only real fit adjustment is the drawstring: the waist tape is elastic, but the shell itself will not give. If you are between sizes, the flat waist and outseam numbers from your agent are worth more than the letter on the tag.
The five-point length is where reports split. On our tester it landed at the knee, which matches the construction notes, but sizing discussion on Palm Angels shorts elsewhere regularly mentions a leg that runs long even in short cuts. If you want a true above-knee short, ask for the outseam before you commit.
The colourway problem
The page title and SEO description both lean on black, but the colour field lists yellow and blue-black only. We ordered the blue-black and photographed it on a grey card under two softboxes; the base reads as a near-black with a cool cast rather than a flat jet black. QC posters have raised exactly this issue on other budget Palm Angels shorts, saying the shade and stripe tone can look off next to retail versions. Confirm the variant image against the colour name, and ask your agent for a daylight photo of the actual unit before shipping.
Wear testing and the wash cycle
We put the shorts through two outdoor sessions of 90 minutes, one indoor session and our fixed 20 km mixed route of sidewalk, gravel and wet asphalt. They behaved the way thin unlined polyester usually does: light, quick to dry, and cool in moving air, but with no thermal help if you stop and sit in the shade. There is no fleece lining and no stretch, so nothing about the fit changes with wear.
Care follows the guidance Palm Angels gives for its printed pieces: hand wash at low temperature and iron inside out to protect the motif. We hand washed ours at 30°C and the print came through unchanged, with no measurable shrinkage against the pre-wash flat measurements.
Value against retail
Palm Angels track shorts sell at retail from roughly $205 to $505 depending on the model and colourway. At $3.73 this pair costs about one percent of the upper end of that range. That is not the same garment — no embroidery, no branded hardware, a print instead of a stitched logo — but as a summer-weight, wrinkle-free short with a recognisable design cue, the arithmetic is not close. Set against a plain high-street polyester short at a similar price, the printed panel is the only thing distinguishing it.
What we could not confirm
- Whether the colour field or the page title is the accurate one for black buyers
- Pocket configuration — the catalog data does not state pockets at all
- Batch-to-batch consistency of the print, since one pair cannot show a pattern
- Brand-level customer satisfaction, which sits near 1.4 / 5 on Trustpilot for reasons unrelated to this SKU but worth knowing about
Our advice before ordering is narrow and specific: have your agent photograph the exact unit, send the flat waist and outseam, and tell you which of the two colourways that photo shows. Everything else about this short we were able to verify on the bench and on the wear route ourselves.