- Value: 20/20
- Functionality: 19/20
- Quality/Ease of Use: 20/20
- Aesthetics: 18/20
- Chafe Protection: 20/20
- TOTAL: 97/100
With a trip to Indio, California, nearing for Coachella weekend, I recently found myself in desperate need of an up-to-date warm-weather wardrobe—one that didn’t call for short shorts. Having gone through the micro shorts phase once upon a time (mainly in high school and college, if my memory serves me right), I wanted to steer as far clear of that chapter of my life as possible. After all, I wasn’t there for the Coachella festival. No, I was there for the Gallery Desert House events and activations, where I was expecting to run into plenty of colleagues, many of whom I’d be meeting for the first time, and booty shorts don’t necessarily scream, “I’m a professional.” So, I did the only thing I could do…I went shopping with my mom and my sister. Spoiler alert: I found a holy grail pair in the Levi’s High Baggy Short.
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