side seams and stitching — except they don’t feel like restrictive denim at all thanks to an elastic waist and 100% cotton materials, making them feel more like sweats than traditional jeans.

But that's of limited help to you as a consumer if you're just ordering a pair of jeans off a retailer's website. "If you really want to be confident of the traceability of the cotton in your ...

From the pesticides and insecticides used to grow cotton to the massive amounts of water, energy, and chemicals used to process the materials and turn them into denim, jeans rank as one of the ...