My son has Dickie's, Quicksilver and Volcom shorts. Of them all, these are the most comfortable in terms of the material. He normally takes size 31 (Levi's jeans), but in these the size 32 fits more comfortably. Note the white shorts, although they're very nice looking, he complained that they were a bit on the see-through side so the white ones were returned. The grey ones he loves. His future shorts will be Volcom, and hopefully they'll come out with a white plaid pair that has more noticable black or grey stripes to make them less see-through (like the white Dickies).