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Basted Shorts - (100% Organic Cotton + 100% Merino Wool Liner)

Basted Shorts - (100% Organic Cotton + 100% Merino Wool Liner)

The featherlight under layer thousands of women now wear under everything. They stop chafing before it starts. They keep you cool when the day turns hot. And they vanish under any outfit you put over them.

End thigh chafing for good

Stay cool, even if you walk a lot

Smooth, invisible lines under every outfit

So light, you forget they're on

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  • "I forgot what summer felt like without thigh chafe"

    I have thick thighs. I've spent every summer dreading dresses, planning my outfits around the weather, and reapplying powder in public bathrooms. One walk across town in these shorts and I knew. No friction. No sweat. No reminder they were even on. I ordered three more pairs that night. - Dianne 39

  • "Ten hours on my feet and not one thought about my thighs"

    I'm a nurse. Twelve hour shifts, mostly standing. By 2pm most days I want to claw my own skin off. I bought these on a whim after a coworker swore by them. First shift wearing Strides, I clocked out and realized I hadn't thought about my legs once. That hasn't happened in years.- Maria 34

  • "I wore the dress eleven times this summer"

    I bought a sundress in May. Wore it twice in June and gave up. By July it was hanging in the back of my closet with the tags still on the floor where I'd tossed them. Then a friend told me about Strides. I've worn that dress eleven times since. My husband asked if I'd bought a new one.. - Hannah K. 49

The Shorts

The under layer you'll forget you're wearing. Built from a featherweight cooling fabric that moves heat and sweat off your skin the second they show up. Anti-chafe panels sit exactly where thigh meets thigh, so the friction never starts. A smooth waistband that stays put without digging in. A cotton lined gusset, so you can wear them as underwear or over your favorite pair. No rolling. No riding up. No reminders they're on.

Fabric & Care

78% Sensil® Breeze cooling nylon, 20% elastane, 2% cotton gusset.

OEKO-TEX® STANDARD 100 certified, meaning every thread has been tested safe for skin.

Machine wash cold. Tumble dry low. That's it. They'll outlast every other pair in your drawer.

When to Wear?

Under sundresses. Under skirts. Under linen pants in August. Under wedding outfits when you'll be on your feet for hours. Under scrubs on a twelve hour shift. Under work pants on the days you can't sit down. On long walks, hot commutes, and the days you used to talk yourself out of the outfit you actually wanted to wear.

Basically, any day your thighs touch and the heat climbs. So, most of them.

Shipping & Guanrantee

Most orders arrive within 5 to 8 business days.

Your first pair is backed by our 30 Day Fit Guarantee. Wear them. Wash them. Walk a mile in them. If they don't deliver on every promise we made, send them back for a full refund. No awkward questions.

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The All Day Comfort Ritual

Pull them on once, and feel the difference

Instant Relief

The cooling fabric goes to work the second it touches your skin. Heat moves out. Sweat moves out. Friction never gets the chance to start.

Effortless to Wear

No adjusting. No rolling. No pulling at them in public bathrooms. Pull them on under whatever you're wearing and forget they exist.

End the Chafe. Reclaim the Outfit.

The dresses you stopped wearing. The skirts hanging at the back of your closet. The work pants you keep telling yourself that won't hurt. All of them, back in rotation.

Confidence You Can Feel

Walk further. Stand longer. Sit down without flinching. Show up to the wedding, the beach day, the twelve hour shift, the long lunch, without spending half of it thinking about your thighs.

Our Shorts

The Gusset

The Stretch

The Waistband

Our Shorts

The Gusset

A knit in cotton gusset, built right into the short. Soft where you need it, breathable all day. Wear them as underwear, or over your favorite pair. Either way, no extra layer, no extra heat.

The Gusset

A knit in cotton gusset, built right into the short. Soft where you need it, breathable all day. Wear them as underwear, or over your favorite pair. Either way, no extra layer, no extra heat.

Our Shorts

The Stretch

Knitted in one seamless piece, with 360° stretch built into every fiber. The short moves with your body in every direction. No seams to chafe, no fabric fighting your stride.

The Stretch

Knitted in one seamless piece, with 360° stretch built into every fiber. The short moves with your body in every direction. No seams to chafe, no fabric fighting your stride.

Our Shorts

The Waistband

A reinforced waistband that stays exactly where you put it. No rolling down at the hip. No digging into your stomach. No mid day adjusting in public bathrooms.

The Waistband

A reinforced waistband that stays exactly where you put it. No rolling down at the hip. No digging into your stomach. No mid day adjusting in public bathrooms.

Your Body Deserves More Than "Just Deal With It"

Backed by real women

92%

of women reported zero thigh chafing after wearing Strides for a full day, even in summer heat.

90%

said they finally wore the dresses, skirts, and outfits they'd been avoiding for years.

96%

of customers say they'll never go back to powders, sticks, or thicker bike shorts again.

Made for Every Woman. At Every Stage.

Whether you're in your twenties wearing your first sundress of the summer, recovering postpartum, navigating menopause, or simply noticing your body feels different than it used to. Strides meets you exactly where you are.

Thigh chafe doesn't discriminate. It happens to athletes and accountants, to size 4 and size 24, to women who run marathons and women who walk to the mailbox. It happens in 70 degree weather and it happens in jeans. And for too long, women have been told to just deal with it. To powder it. To plan around it. To wear pants when they wanted to wear a dress.

Strides was built for real women living real lives. Women who refuse to plan their wardrobe around the weather. Women who want to walk further, stand longer, and show up to every plan without thinking about their thighs. Women at every age, every size, every stage.

Lightweight. Invisible. Effective. No matter how many summers you've spent working around your body, it is not too late to wear the dress.

Premium Comfort at a Fraction of the Cost

Like any wardrobe staple, the real value shows up in how often you reach for it.

Instead of spending hundreds each summer on anti-chafe powders, balms, sticks, bandages, and bike shorts that never quite worked, Strides gives you one pair that handles all of it. The cooling, the smoothing, the chafe protection, the underwear layer, all in a single short you'll pull on five days a week.

It's a simple, no fuss essential built to deliver comfort, confidence, and freedom of movement, with no reapplying, no mid day fixes, and no drawer full of half used products that didn't work.

25,000+ Happy Customers

Customer Reviews

Finally wore the dressI bought a navy linen sundress in May 2024. Wore it once, swore it off, hung it at the back of the closet. Bought Strides last month on a Friday, wore the dress to brunch on Sunday, and walked sixteen blocks afterward in 88 degree heat. Zero chafe. I went home and ordered three more pairs

Taylor L.

The only thing that lasted a 12 hour shiftI'm an ICU nurse. I've tried every powder, stick, and bike short on the market. By hour six everything fails. These didn't. I forgot I had them on, which has literally never happened with anything I've worn under scrubs. Buying five more pairs this week.

Jenna S.

Wore them to my sister's weddingOutdoor wedding in July. Long dress, two hours of standing, three hours of dancing. I have thick thighs and I was bracing for the worst. Made it through the entire night without a single thought about chafing. My sister asked me what was different. I told her I'd send her a pair

Jaimy L.

Better than the brand I used to buySwitched from a competitor I'd been buying for years. Strides are thinner, cooler, and the waistband actually stays put. I was loyal to the old brand for so long I didn't realize how much better this could be. Won't go back

Carlolyn P.

Almost perfectLove the feel and the cooling is real. Took half a star off because I wish they came in a higher waist option for under high waisted skirts. The 7 inch is great otherwise. Will buy again

Megan M.

Postpartum lifesaverSix months postpartum, body still finding itself, thighs touching in places they didn't before. I cried a little the first time I walked to the coffee shop in shorts without burning. Sounds dramatic but if you know, you know.

Hannah R.

My summer wardrobe just doubledThere were three dresses I owned but never wore because of chafe. Now I wear all of them. That's the whole review. My closet is twice as big as it was a month ago

Heather B.

Bought a pair for my mom tooMom is 62, in menopause, hot all the time, miserable in summer. I gave her a pair after my second week of wearing mine. She called me the next morning to ask where she could buy more. That's all the recommendation you need

Sasha K.

Disney trip survivalTook my kids to Orlando in August. 95 degrees, 90% humidity, ten hours of walking a day for four days straight. These shorts saved me. My husband actually asked what I was doing differently because I wasn't complaining by lunch like I usually do.

Rachel N.

Worth every dollarI was skeptical at this price point. I've owned them for six weeks and worn them maybe thirty times. That's already less per wear than the cheap pair I used to buy that fell apart after one summer. Quality is night and day

Tasha P.

No more sweat marksThis is the unsexy review but I'm saying it anyway. Sweat marks on my sundresses are gone. Whatever this fabric is doing, it's working. I don't have to wear an undershirt or worry about the back of my dress looking damp by noon.

Marsha V.

Bought them for vacation, kept them for lifeOriginally bought these for a trip to Greece. Now I wear them under everything, even jeans. The cooling is unreal in the heat and they're invisible under leggings and tighter pants. They've become the most worn item in my drawer.

Veronica E.

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