https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/summer-holiday-shorts-ftw-2025 Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:33:52 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/summer-holiday-shorts-ftw-2025#post-2392480 Sat, 02 Aug 2025 14:12:27 +0000 LJP 2392480@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Good to know about the half-zip. &nbsp;I can see how that would be. &nbsp;I think I'll let it go now :)&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/summer-holiday-shorts-ftw-2025#post-2392465 Sat, 02 Aug 2025 05:37:38 +0000 Kate 2392465@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Just got my haul today, Lisa. I’m keeping the full length wide legs. They’re great and will get a lot of wear.</p> <p>The joggers and half zip are going back. I bought both of these in Med Tall.</p> <p>The half zip was still cropped but workable for me. However, even for an oversized look, the half zip was too big, and I found the collar when spread just too bulky.</p> <p>The joggers were fine and the tall length was perfect—I just didn’t love them.</p> <p>I’m really going to enjoy the shorts and wide leg pants, so thanks for posting about them. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/summer-holiday-shorts-ftw-2025#post-2392424 Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:31:38 +0000 LJP 2392424@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Kate - that's great! &nbsp;I have the half zip in my shopping cart too and must see if it's still actually there. I tend to accumulate things in a cart and half of them are out of stock by the time I decide to order, lol </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/summer-holiday-shorts-ftw-2025#post-2392233 Tue, 29 Jul 2025 20:55:45 +0000 Janet 2392233@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Late to this but I’m so glad you had a wonderful vacation, and thanks for the recommendations. I think I’m set for shorts, still, since I don’t seem to be wearing them much these days (ive worn long breezy skirts so much since I’ve been home!), but Athleta has been so good to me lately that it’s good to know they’re doing great shorts now too. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/summer-holiday-shorts-ftw-2025#post-2392229 Tue, 29 Jul 2025 19:32:01 +0000 Kate 2392229@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Many thanks, Lisa. I did order them, and love them. So much so, I just placed an order for the half-zip, joggers, and wide leg pants in the same fabric and color. I won't keep both pants, just the pair I like the best. My love affair with chocolate brown continues! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/summer-holiday-shorts-ftw-2025#post-2391409 Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:01:11 +0000 unfrumped 2391409@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for the shorts ideas- I keep looking for longer inseams but not necessarily full- on Bermuda. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/summer-holiday-shorts-ftw-2025#post-2391336 Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:43:18 +0000 Jaime 2391336@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sounds like a great vacation - glad you found the right shorts for the job! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/summer-holiday-shorts-ftw-2025#post-2391288 Sat, 19 Jul 2025 18:45:50 +0000 Sal 2391288@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Love these types of shorts. So useful on an active vacation - sounds like a wonderful break and pleased you could get away! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/summer-holiday-shorts-ftw-2025#post-2391281 Sat, 19 Jul 2025 15:29:56 +0000 Kyle 2391281@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This is great, and I’m happy you had such a good family vacation. I’ve had similar experiences with some items from Athleta and Old Navy. I find my Athleta barrel pants to be incredibly versatile, comfortable and high quality. And my Old Navy pandemic joggers are indestructible! &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/summer-holiday-shorts-ftw-2025#post-2391268 Sat, 19 Jul 2025 13:48:05 +0000 Helena 2391268@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sounds like a great trip Lisa and those shorts look awesome. I have some ON shorts in my closet that have been earning their spot for years ... When they make a winner, you can't beat it!</p> <p>I think sometimes the Gap company store sites force us to the Canadian sites based on our phone location, which is why they don't want to play with the Collect widget ... Could be wrong but I think that's happened to me too. Fwiw! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/summer-holiday-shorts-ftw-2025#post-2391262 Sat, 19 Jul 2025 11:18:16 +0000 Dee 2391262@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Glad you had some time off to enjoy the great Canadian outdoors, and those two shorts look very neat, practical and stylish. Love that they are a longer length too, May have to check them out. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/summer-holiday-shorts-ftw-2025#post-2391260 Sat, 19 Jul 2025 07:54:41 +0000 Mirjana 2391260@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>How nice that you had a wonderful holiday. Those shorts look very good and comfortable. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/summer-holiday-shorts-ftw-2025#post-2391244 Sat, 19 Jul 2025 02:08:31 +0000 Lisa 2391244@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sounds like a lovely and well deserved vacation! And two excellent new items for your summer capsule too.  </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/summer-holiday-shorts-ftw-2025#post-2391239 Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:14:23 +0000 Irina 2391239@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Glad you enjoyed your much deserved vacation break, Lisa.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/summer-holiday-shorts-ftw-2025#post-2391238 Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:09:54 +0000 LJP 2391238@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Kate - yes , they are chocolate brown . </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/summer-holiday-shorts-ftw-2025#post-2391237 Fri, 18 Jul 2025 23:35:28 +0000 gryffin 2391237@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Lisa - Those shorts look awesome!! Many thanks for the reviews!! So hard to find nice, wrinkle free, comfortable ones that dress up and down. Your vacation sounds amazing. Glad you had a wonderful time!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/summer-holiday-shorts-ftw-2025#post-2391235 Fri, 18 Jul 2025 23:10:00 +0000 LJP 2391235@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>JAileen - no , the provincial park we were in is in the Central part of Manitoba . &nbsp;Not terribly far north at all. &nbsp;The Shield actually dips as far south as Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota, which are near Manitoba. &nbsp;It was less than a 2 hour drive. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/summer-holiday-shorts-ftw-2025#post-2391233 Fri, 18 Jul 2025 22:35:25 +0000 JAileen 2391233@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>These both look really nice. &nbsp;Much nicer looking than my nylon shorts! &nbsp;TBH, I had to look up Canadian Shield. &nbsp;You were way Up North, weren’t you? &nbsp;I’m glad you had a great time. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/summer-holiday-shorts-ftw-2025#post-2391232 Fri, 18 Jul 2025 22:22:37 +0000 Sloper 2391232@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I’m glad you had such a nice trip!<div><br /></div><div>Thanks for sharing the details on the new shorts. &nbsp;Tech fabrics (I.e. non- cotton) have improved so much. &nbsp;I used to shy away from the dreaded “polyesters” but have been very pleasantly surprised with these modern fabrications.</div> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/summer-holiday-shorts-ftw-2025#post-2391230 Fri, 18 Jul 2025 22:12:53 +0000 Kate 2391230@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Your holiday sounds wonderful.</p> <p>I love Athleta shorts and skorts, and find they really go the distance while always looking great. I’ve had some of mine for 6+ years.</p> <p>I like both pairs of shorts you bought but was especially taken with the Old Navy pair. If the color Black Coffee is actually chocolate brown, I’m going to order them. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/summer-holiday-shorts-ftw-2025#post-2391229 Fri, 18 Jul 2025 21:50:13 +0000 kkards 2391229@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sometimes a change in scenery is just what we need to refresh and rewind.<br /> And it sounds like a fab getaway with the right mix of doing and not doing.<br /> And I love the shorts. My favorite skorts are Athleta, they just design for actual women doing actual things, so not surprised the had great shorts. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/summer-holiday-shorts-ftw-2025#post-2391225 Fri, 18 Jul 2025 21:41:03 +0000 Suz 2391225@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Great reviews, Lisa. Thank you! Athleta really shines in some areas, doesn't it. Some brilliant items from them over the last few years. I've been very happy with all my purchases there.&nbsp;</p> <p>Glad you had a good holiday. It is necessary for the soul!&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/summer-holiday-shorts-ftw-2025#post-2391221 Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:59:55 +0000 Angie 2391221@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Glad you had a great holiday, <b>LJP</b>! So very necessary and therapeutic these days....</p> <p>Great that the perfect pairs of shorts for the setting and activities at hand found you! Always good to share fab finds :)</p> <p>Here are the links, I think? And they come in other colours:</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://oldnavy.gap.com/browse/product.do?pid=764339022&amp;vid=1&amp;searchText=bounce%20fleece%20shorts#pdp-page-content">https://oldnavy.gap.com/browse.....fleece%20s</a>&nbsp;</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://athleta.gap.com/browse/product.do?pid=658548002&amp;vid=1&amp;tid=atpl000084&amp;kwid=1&amp;ap=7&amp;ds_agid=22304696784-&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=22304698785&amp;gbraid=0AAAAAD_AT8uNNubYAcoU8z9eDAc3VvCfO&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMImsy_nqbHjgMVOgytBh2ktynsEAQYAiABEgL0efD_BwE"><a href="https://athleta.gap.com/browse/product.do?pid=658548002&#038;vid=1&#038;tid=atpl000084&#038;kwid=1&#038;amp" rel="nofollow">https://athleta.gap.com/browse.....1&#038;amp</a>;</a></p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/summer-holiday-shorts-ftw-2025#post-2391219 Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:37:02 +0000 LJP 2391219@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>We just got back from a <b>week at a cabin in Whiteshell Provincial Park in Manitoba (on the Canadian Shield) </b>and I didn't want to leave. We had such a great time that we've already booked again for next summer. It's the first actual vacation-away-from-home we've taken many, many years, and I realized about a week before we left that I had no suitable sweatpants, shorts, hoodies etc for lake wear. <b>&nbsp;1 huge order to Athleta/Gap/BR/Old Navy later</b> &nbsp;(no time for in-store shopping and Gap and BR are now gone from our city anyways &nbsp;, sadly ) and I netted out (among a couple of other pieces) <b>2 WONDERFUL pair of shorts </b>that I want to share.</p> <p>Fabric and fibre purists will not like these, so you can click away right now, lol, but those of you looking for <b>active wear shorts that also have a dressy vibe, these are perfect! &nbsp;</b></p> <p>The <b>Athleta</b> ones &nbsp;(second photo ) are described as "poplin", which we typically associate with cotton, but are in fact 100% polyester (recycled fibres, B Corp certified company). &nbsp;I wore them in the car on the way there, and for many other occasions, and they did not wrinkle or lose their body and shape. <b>Beautiful cool , crisp hand-feel</b>, and front slash pockets. &nbsp;They also look great "dressed up" with a loose linen shirt or a "dressier" sweatshirt. &nbsp;They aren't inexpensive ($80 Cdn I think) but well, well, worth it. &nbsp;Long inseam, which for me is perfect .&nbsp;</p> <p>The <b>Old Navy </b>pair (first photo) &nbsp;were another surprise hit, in what they call a "Bounce Fleece" (no fleecy inside, &nbsp;so that's a misnomer; more of a soft scuba knit) that has a<b> wonderful smooth hand-feel,</b> stitched down front crease, side slits, and slash pockets. &nbsp;Long inseam again, which is my vibe this summer. &nbsp;I ordered the matching 1/4 zip top a few minutes ago I like them that much ! &nbsp;Super inexpensive, but again, a poly blend.</p> <p>These shorts took me through fat-biking, hiking, regular walks, easy bike rides, and just lounging around . &nbsp;Hope someone else finds these as useful as I did !</p> <p>And, I'm sorry but the collector applet didn't work even though I was indeed logged in. &nbsp; </p>