I swim about six miles a week in the local YMCA, so swim shorts are essential equipment for me. First the good: they fit and cover what they need to cover as swim trunks.
Then the bad: within the first week, one of the rows of stitching in the waist band came loose.
Finally, the ugly: after two weeks of swimming five days aweek (A nd rinsing the shorts in fresh water after every swim, the light teal color has become a muddy gray-green. I've had other, more colorful swim trunks from another catalog which held up in better color and condition for a lot longer.
What were they thinking? Well, I guess they didn't actually call them swimming trunks for a reason. After watching mine fade from green to pale yellow in a few months I noticed the care tag "only non-chlorine bleach..." LLBean really needs to develop a line of swimwear for use in swimming pools.
The not-swimming-trunks are good otherwise except for that color thing.
Order a size down!! Having purchased numerous pairs of these shorts over the years (which lasted beautifully), I decided to update and add to my supply with 3 more pair. I noticed upon arrival they were a lighter material. but thought I could overlook that. I went ahead and laundered them, but what I didn't expect when I put them on was the change in fit...for the same size, the change in waistband was huge!! Placing the old and new pairs "sideseam to sideseam", the waistband now extends a good 2 1/2," making the waist some 5" wider. Thankfully there's the drawstring to pull them in, but then the overall fit looks and feels terrible. I'd still recommend the shorts, but you should order a size down, and hope the seat still fits.
