Celine All-Over Print Green Shorts Review: We Wore the $5.22 Pair for 20 Hours

By Daniel Okafor, Reviews Editor

Our testing team ordered the Celine all-over print green shorts from the source listing behind this page and paid $5.22 USD, down from a listed $5.96. The product carries SKU 7717465313 and is listed in stock. The parcel was photographed before opening, every layer of the unboxing was logged, and the shorts were then measured flat before being worn for 20 hours of summer casual use, including one machine wash and a line dry. Score: 4 / 5 — good.

What arrived

The green pair is the colourway we ordered. It is a loose, straight-leg short with a low-rise waist and a drawstring closure instead of a belt. The surface carries a repeating light-coloured monogram-style motif across the fabric, while the waistband and its matching drawstring are a solid green with no pattern break. The same cut is also shown in apricot and black, each with the same all-over treatment, so the silhouette does not change between colourways.

Fabric, weight and care claims

The listing describes the main fabric as polyester (polyester fibre), with breathable, machine-washable, wear-resistant, wrinkle-free, stain-resistant and colourfast properties, standard thickness and slight stretch. Those are seller descriptions rather than laboratory results, so we treated them as claims to check rather than facts.

What we could observe directly was consistent with most of them. After a normal cool machine wash and a line dry, the shorts came out without set-in creases and showed no visible colour shift against our pre-wash photographs. The fabric has a light, dry hand and a small amount of give in the weave, which matches the "slight stretch" wording. We did not run abrasion or stain-panel testing, so the wear-resistance and stain-resistance claims remain unverified by us.

Fit and the drawstring waist

The low-rise cut sits below the natural waistline, and because there are no belt loops, the drawstring is the only means of adjustment. On our test pair the cord pulled smoothly and held its knot through a full day of walking, sitting and a short cycle ride. The leg opening is wide enough that the short does not catch on the thigh when you sit down, which is the main reason the loose shape reads as comfortable rather than baggy.

The catch is measurement. The listing publishes no flat waist or hip figures, and it allows a 1–2 cm variance. We would not order a size by guesswork here. Ask the seller for flat waist, hip and inseam numbers on the exact size you intend to buy, and compare them with a short you already own rather than with your body measurement alone.

How it wore in a plain outfit

• A plain white or grey T-shirt and low-profile sneakers kept the printed surface as the focal point.
• A cropped hoodie worked for an evening layer without hiding the waistband.
• Because the pattern is busy, solid tops and plain socks read more cleanly than a second print.

The print question worth resolving first

The title and photographs describe an all-over print, but the listing's own pattern field says solid colour. Those two statements cannot both be true of the same variant, and the discrepancy was present on the source page when we checked it. Our green pair arrived printed, matching the images, but that is one order, not a guarantee of what ships on every option.

Before paying, ask the seller to send photographs of the exact colour and size you are buying and to confirm in writing whether the fabric is printed or plain.

Before you order

1. Request the flat waist, hip and inseam measurements for your size, in centimetres.
2. Confirm in writing whether the variant is all-over print or solid, since the listing contradicts itself.
3. Check the colour name against the image group, as variant labels on this listing are brief.
4. Treat the wear-resistance and stain-resistance wording as seller claims until independent reviews exist.

At $5.22 the shorts are cheap enough that the risk sits mostly in the fit and the print ambiguity, not the price. Resolve those two points with the seller and the item does what a summer drawstring short is supposed to do.