Claire's Picks
Recycled Jeans That Feel Properly Made
Most recycled denim falls into one of two traps. It either wears its sustainability credentials so loudly that the actual product feels like an afterthought, or it cuts corners in construction and calls it a compromise worth making. Neither is acceptable when you are buying jeans you expect to wear for years. We have been looking specifically at pairs made from recycled cotton and reclaimed fibers that hold their shape through a wash, fade the way good denim should, and sit properly on the body without that slack, unconvincing quality that plagues a lot of this category. The sourcing story matters less to us than how the jeans actually perform. These ones happen to do both. Selvedge finishing, proper riveting, waistbands that do not roll. The details that tell you someone was paying attention. Sustainable denim used to mean accepting a worse product. The pairs we have picked here make that trade-off entirely unnecessary.
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