Is this model too skinny for these?

[Zen]

or do these shorts really look this awful?

In my never ending quest for trail-type shorts I came upon these results from Performance
http://www.performancebike.com/shop/sub_cat.cfm?subcategory_id=1222
I can only hope these shorts don't really make you look like a six year old boy wearing his dads board shorts, Particularly these (http://www.performancebike.com/shop/profile.cfm?SKU=25242&subcategory_ID=1222)

[bmccasland]

Zen - I tend to agree. It looks like the shorts are about to fall off the model. That and I detest the dropped waist look, which doesn't help the appearance that the shorts are about to fall off.

[Tuckervill]

a 6 year old boy is right! oy vey.

Karen

[divingbiker]

I can only hope these shorts don't really make you look like a six year old boy wearing his dads board shorts, Particularly these (http://www.performancebike.com/shop/profile.cfm?SKU=25242&subcategory_ID=1222)

Before I even looked at the second link, I knew those were the shorts you were talking about! Just awful...

[Blueberry]

I don't know - the Fox Women's Base short might be worse:eek:
CA

[OakLeaf]

I'm nowheres near that skinny (and note that the Fox sizing chart gives comparable dress sizes in juniors'), but I do favor that style of shorts for walking, boating, hanging around - they're just so comfy. I don't much care how they look when they feel that good and I'm wearing them for "ratty," sweaty activities anyhow. I've never worn a MTB style short with a liner though.

[xeney]

Those pictures are hilarious. Performance's store brand shorts run huge, in my experience -- I had a pair of size mediums that I could wear when I was five months pregnant, and immediately after I had my daughter, and now they are way too big for me. (And I am about a size 8-10.) Probably they just don't come in a small enough size for that model!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

The model is too skinny AND the shorts are too baggy and ugly. :cool:

[GreenLady]

I guess I don't find them that bad... maybe I just have weird taste in fashion.

[Crankin]

I like wearing shorts, pants, skirts with dropped waists. Sorry... no mom pants for me even though I am an old lady. They actually are more flattering on me than high waists.
But, those models did look a bit on the scrawny side. Performance clothes do run big and they don't carry the things I like in extra smalls. Perhaps they don't realize there a lot of short cyclists. I have a couple of Performance wool jerseys in smalls from a few years ago that do fit well, but it seems like since then, there has been the dreaded size creep.

[roadie gal]

It looks to me like she's wearing her big brother's or her boyfriend's shorts. I give them (or her depending on how you look at it) a "thumb's down".

[lph]

I like pants and shorts with dropped waists too - gives me the illusion of actually having hips :D

[Zen]

it's not the dropped waist that's odd. It's the HA-YOOOOJ baggy legs :eek:

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

it's not the dropped waist that's odd. It's the HA-YOOOOJ baggy legs :eek:

Yes I think that too. I like dropped waists. But the circus clown shopping bag legs?? :confused::confused:

[limewave]

Those do look bad on her! These were not made for women with toothpick legs.

These are the kind of shorts that would look good on me--I've got some meaty thighs that would fill those right up and I would look adventurous AND hot.