After reading some of the other reviews about how the rise is slightly short. I was worried about that but after getting the shorts and trying them out. It turned out that these shorts fit me very good. I suspect if you have a thicker and heavy body build these shorts might not work. I weigh 192lbs but I'm 6-1 with a more slimmer body type. I washed these cargo shorts and threw them into the dryer and they came out just fine. No shrinkage noticed. Now if the fabric were just slightly heavier I would have given it 5 stars.