Castelli

Body Paint Women's Shorts

Castelli is so confident that the comfort and fit of the Body Paint concept that they offer it in both bib and half shorts. This is the latter, which they call the Body Paint Women's Shorts. Just like the bibs, only they've taken the Giro ++ bib material and turned it into a waist band.

We'll repeat a bit in case you didn't click on the bib version first. The shorts are made from a single piece of Power Stretch Lycra that fits as if it were painted on, from the waist band down to the integrated Giro ++ ("Giro Two") grippers in the legs.

The waistband is a soft, wide, doubled-over, comfortable piece of Giro++ Lycra. The gripper material is built into the Lycra. When the material is not stretched, you can neither see nor feel the gripper. Stretch the material and it rises out of the spandex. The result is a soft yet confident grip.

The screen-printed reflective Castelli name on the legs is designed to stay forever, as you'd want from any reflective element. The scorpion logos in back let people know what you're wearing as you turn the screws to them in total comfort. The integrated grippers mean the Giro ++ is in the fabric, not a sewn-in or sewn-on-top gripper. You won't see it when you examine the shorts in your hand; turn the shorts inside out and stretch the bottom of the legs and it will start to appear.

Inside is Castelli's Progetto X2 Donna pad. It is sized and shaped for women, not simply a men's pad wrought smaller. This is a three-layer stretch pad that is shorter front to back and wider side-to-side than the men's version. The top layer is soft and seamless bacteriostatic polyester fabric that wicks moisture away from your body. Underneath the top layer is a perforated viscous comfort pad located directly under the sit bones and the perineum to neutralize those high-pressure areas. The final layer has variable thicknesses. It is micro-thin at the edges and increases in thickness en route to the thickest area, under your ischial tuberosities.

The Castelli Body Paint Women's Shorts come in Black. Sizes run from X-Small to X-Large.