Hello Julia,
We do understand your review concerning the waistband elastic, and I'll address this in the email so you know why it exists.
First, the support fabric comes in two different knits, but they are the same in quality: bamboo Eco Air Tek and bamboo Eco Power Stretch. If anything has improved with technology with us it this is a particular blend of herbs to create these fabrics to benefit your health. Please remember they just need to be washed once with vinegar or a fabric softener to give them the bamboo softness. We airship some goods, and they seem to stiffen up a bit. We only make natural fabrics, so they are never exact, but they do not have dangerous metals or hormone disruptors, which is very important to all of us.
Let's move on to the elastic situation. Yes, we added this 3/8 elastic due to customers asking for waistband support due to the pants slipping. So that was a difficult decision to make for all of us. As a founder, I created the No Elastic waistband and wanted to keep it. We even set up an email style@greenappleactive.com to let customers tell us what they would prefer so we can move forward the best way possible during COVID-19. It ended up not one customer wanted to withhold the elastic waistband, but several needed it, so that is why it exists at all. Now, since we added it, we finally heard from enough customers to create some change. So we just brought in the Estelle without elastic and will bring in a new Lotus Flare and Sofia Legging without elastic. This should solve all the problems for everyone.
Thank you for the input, Julia. We do appreciate it immensely.
Healthy regards,
Cristofer Smith