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★★★★★
Waterlust is the best!
Great products, great customer service, great mission! Worth every penny.
- Michelle Rumbaut, TX
Main fabric: 88% Repreve® RPET (recycled polyester made from post-consumer plastic bottles), 12% spandex
Eyelets: brass
Tie: high tensile strength nylon paracord
Zipper: polyacetal resin (tough, high-strength thermoplastic)
Button: polyacetal resin (tough, high-strength thermoplastic)
Orders are lovingly packaged using minimal packaging and eco-responsible materials, and shipped from our wonderful partner warehouse in Pennsylvania within the same or next business day. We’ll email you with your tracking info as soon as your order is shipped.
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We lovingly prepare each one of our orders for its journey to you using the best packaging materials we can find with the least environmental impact.
Free within the U.S. International orders must pay return postage. Exchanges orders can be placed immediately with an instant credit.
We stand behind every product we make. If you have a problem, we will solve it with the relentless determination of a salmon swimming upstream to spawn.
They are it. The materials are great, they last in everyday use, and look good. Been through a whole lotta boardies before I found Waterlust.
I tried to get these as a present for my husband recently. He typically wears a 32 - the 33 was falling off even with the strings tied as tight as possible. The 31 was uncomfortably tight. The shorts were high quality, and the return process has been fine, but it's a shame that even-numbered sizes aren't offered :(
I can now say that these are my favorite shorts, in and out of the water. Very comfortable, so far have been tough, dry quickly. Just spent a week on my son’s sailboat in British Columbia and forgot them. He says “No dice. They fit great and my girlfriend says they look 100% better than my old ones. They’re mine.” Guess that’s an OK gift for a great trip, but when I tried to order some identical new ones, they were back-ordered. Word must have gotten around!
Love the shorts! Very comfortable and well built, and what an amazing company to do business with! The USPS "misdelivered" the first pair and weren't very interested in retrieving them and redelivering them. I contacted Waterlust and they had a second pair on the way (via FedEx) straight away!
My wife has loved her leggings over the past couple years, and I love these shorts. Can't recommend enough!
Super fan of your board shorts. I have 3 pairs with different fabrics. All amazing.
The reader should take into account that these comments are made after only wearing the board shorts around the house for most of a day, and that the shorts have yet to hit the water. That said, they're comfortable, fit well and look and feel well-made. The fabric is very lightweight. My wife says that they look a ton better than the crummy counterfeit ones I had to buy in Peru when I forgot a better pair on a long trip. So far, very good!
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