Help me hunt down these specific board (or paddling?) shorts!
July 4, 2015 12:17 PM   Subscribe

This past week I was at the beach and saw a group of women pop out of nowhere carrying an outrigger canoe which they climbed into and paddled off. A few of them were wearing awesome pairs of knee-length shorts, black with a hibiscus pattern down the side. I couldn't tell if they were Spandex or Neoprene...but I want to buy some like them. Google is unproductive. Can you help me find them?
posted by Miko to Clothing, Beauty, & Fashion (12 answers total) 3 users marked this as a favorite
 
Boardshorts. Something like this?

posted by pzarquon at 12:31 PM on July 4, 2015


Response by poster: Yes, sort of like that, but these were (a) women's, and designed accordingly to fit a female shape, and (b) they were stretchy and adhered to the skin, instead of being loose at the knee like the ones in the link.
posted by Miko at 12:32 PM on July 4, 2015


Athleta has some like this!
posted by mothershock at 12:33 PM on July 4, 2015 [2 favorites]


Oops. Maybe:

Not body hugging, though.
posted by pzarquon at 12:33 PM on July 4, 2015


Response by poster: Thanks, you guys! Mothershock's are closest - really form fitting. I hadn't thought of searching "swim shorts." I would like to find more like these but that stop above the knee.
posted by Miko at 12:35 PM on July 4, 2015


Are these them?
posted by MsMolly at 12:48 PM on July 4, 2015 [1 favorite]


Response by poster: Not quite, but getting warmer. These were almost to the knee, and hibiscus design color was white.
posted by Miko at 2:30 PM on July 4, 2015


Hmm, paddle capris? Surf capris?
posted by MonkeyToes at 5:16 PM on July 4, 2015


Jammer is another name for these.
posted by entropyiswinning at 5:38 PM on July 4, 2015


Came in to say the same thing as entropyiswinning. That sounds exactly like a Speedo (or Tyr, or some other manufacturer) jammer with a panel design down each leg. As far as I know they only make them in men's sizes, but I've seen plenty of women wearing them at the pool.
posted by saladin at 7:21 PM on July 4, 2015


How about these? (It won't let me link directly to the hibiscus design.)
posted by MsMolly at 7:32 PM on July 4, 2015


Response by poster: MsMolly: those hibiscus shorts look exactly like one of the pairs of shorts I saw. So that's a find. I would love to find the other style, which is to the knee - the Speedo jammers entropyiswinning and saladin mention are the right shape and style - but I can't find them in hibiscus. Seems like there has to be some place that sells a range of styles with that pattern, because several people had variations.
posted by Miko at 3:53 PM on July 5, 2015


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