Purchased for my 10 year old son. Overall they fit a little large but this is an issue we run into with all clothing on my son. In order for him to wear these we have to roll the waist band down 2-3 times, which even so still make his shorts slide down his skinny waist. The other issue with these shorts is that they are rather see thru  He wore them recently to school and it wasn't until he was at school when his friend told him his black and white batman cartoon briefs were showing, he thought that his friend was saying that his shorts were sliding down his waist, however his friend meant that you could see the design on his underwear through the shorts. He said he looked down and said that it literally looked like he left home in just his underwear. He was literally mortified and said he tried to keep his t-shirt pulled down, which worked some of the time.

All this said he will keep the shorts, keeping in mind how see thru the shorts are