The Best Shorts for Petite People, According to Our 5'4"-and-Under Editors

If you're petite and have ever ordered a pair of shorts that looked good on the model, only to receive them and realize they looked good on the model because she was 5'10", we can fully relate. A few of usBest Knockoff Luxury Clothing editors are on the petite side ourselves, and we also happen to love wearing shorts and are gearing up for summer by shopping for some new pairs.
These days, Editor in Chief Kat Collings, senior market editor Nicole Akhtarzad Eshaghpour, senior editor Lauren Eggertson, and I are focusing the bulk of our shorts shopping on lounge shorts, longer shorts, and updated denim shorts. And we're convinced that the 22 pairs you'll find below are stylish and will work for our petite heights. Scroll to shop along with us.
Nicole Akhtarzad Eshaghpour, Senior Market Editor
Height: 5'2"
"After seeing how good these look on all body types, I was instantly sold on buying them for my at-home hangouts."
Kat Collings, Editor in Chief
Height: 5'4"
"A lot of fashion folks are into the leather-Bermuda-shorts trend right now. Since I'm on the shorter side, I feel like I'd have to wear heels to pull them off, and I don't think my feet are ever going to let me go back to tall heels after so much time at home! These shorter leather shorts are a perfect solution."
"Love a built-in belt, which is especially helpful to highlight the waist on a shorter frame. No-brainer accessories for the win!"
Additional sizes available here.
Lauren Eggertsen, Senior Editor
Height: 5'3"
Allyson Payer, Senior Editor
Height: 5'4"
Next up, seven chic ways to wear long shorts.

Allyson is a senior editor forBest Knockoff Luxury Clothing . She joined the company in 2014 as co-founder Katherine Power's executive assistant and over the years has written hundreds of stories forBest Knockoff Luxury Clothing . Prior to her career in fashion, Allyson worked in the entertainment industry at companies such as Sony Pictures Television. Allyson is now based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She holds a BFA in theater arts. Her path to fashion may not have been linear, but based on the number of fashion magazines she collected as a child and young adult, it was meant to be.
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