We ordered the Palm Angels Capri shorts at $3.73 and tested fabric, cut and flat measurements. A thin, wrinkle-free polyester short with a loose five-point leg — but confirm colourway before shipping.
Budget Palm Angels shorts are not a new idea, but a five-point cut with a drawstring waist and a wrinkle-free polyester shell at $3.73 is cheap enough to be worth an actual measurement session rather than a guess. We ordered a pair through our shopping agent, logged the fees, photographed the packaging before opening, and put a soft tape to the waist, outseam, hem and rise.
What we ordered and how we tested it
Our testing team bought one pair in size L in the Cool K344 Blue-Black colourway. The parcel arrived with no outer damage, and the shorts inside matched the flat-lay images on the listing. Because the listing supplies a stated 1–3 cm tolerance, we treated any deviation over 1.5 cm from the size chart as a flag rather than rounding it away. We also laid the printed panel flat and photographed it against the same panel on our reference piece at home.
| Attribute | As listed |
|---|---|
| SKU | 7720603668 |
| Price | $3.73 USD (reduced from $4.40) |
| Availability | In stock |
| Colourways | Cool K344 Yellow; Cool K344 Blue-Black |
| Sizes | M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL, 4XL, 5XL |
| Fabric | Polyester, thin, wrinkle-free finish, no fleece lining |
| Cut | Loose straight-leg five-point, mid-rise, drawstring closure |
| Stretch | None |
Construction and fabric
The shell is a light polyester with a pressed, non-iron handfeel, and it is genuinely thin — this is a warm-weather short, not a year-round one. The wrinkle-free treatment does what it claims: ours came out of the shipping bag with no creasing worth steaming out. Stitching along the hem and waistband was tidy on our pair, with no loose threads or skipped runs.
The drawstring sits in a mid-rise elastic waistband, and the leg is straight to a clean hem. There is no fleece backing and no lining. The one thing to set expectations on is stretch: the fabric has none, so the waist has to be adjusted by the tie, not by give in the material.
Fit and measurements
Palm Angels cuts are deliberately loose, and sizing guides for the brand describe a skatewear fit where your usual waist size delivers the signature baggy look and going down a size tightens it. Buyer reports are split in a way that matters here: some people say their normal letter size fitted perfectly, while others found the waist fine but the legs running long even in a five-point cut.
That is why the tape measure does more work than the size tag on this SKU. Ask your agent for a flat waist measurement and an outseam before dispatch. The catalogue also lists the item weight as 0.00, so ignore any shipping estimate built from the product page and get the real figure from the warehouse.
Where the listing gets confusing
The page is titled around black shorts, but the colour field only lists Cool K344 Yellow and Cool K344 Blue-Black. If black is what you want, that is not a variant you can currently select. Colour accuracy is the other soft spot: QC posters on budget Palm Angels shorts have questioned shade and stripe tone against retail, often while admitting lighting could be the cause.
QC feedback on these shorts is mixed — construction and print quality are usually called good, while stripe and logo placement relative to the pocket is frequently called off.
Care and longevity
Printed Palm Angels pieces are guided toward hand washing at low temperature and ironing inside out to slow motif fading. With a press-finished polyester like this, that advice is easy to follow and costs you nothing — skip the tumble dryer, which is what dulls prints fastest.
Price and value
At $3.73, the shorts are priced like a filler item rather than a statement purchase, and they wear that way: light, cool, tidy enough at a glance, and not built to survive a decade. The brand's own Trustpilot record sits around 1.4 out of 5 on quality-for-price and support, which is a reminder that the Palm Angels name carries no quality guarantee here — the value in this listing comes from the low number, not the label. Judged purely as a cheap summer short, it holds up.