Meridian Creek Jogger men's

Use:

• Perfect for everyday use, offering exceptional comfort from morning to night.
• Ideal for relaxing at home, ensuring maximum comfort during your moments of rest.
• Suitable for casual urban activities and light outdoor excursions, such as relaxing at a campsite.
• Designed by Columbia to provide a versatile garment that combines everyday style with functional comfort, ideal for those seeking flexibility without sacrificing softness.
• Its flexible design allows for a wide range of motion, making it suitable for various low-intensity activities or simply for enjoying superior comfort in daily life.

Features:

• Features an elastic waistband for a secure and comfortable fit that adapts to your body, providing all-day comfort.
• Includes an internal drawcord that allows for customization and a tailored fit at the waist, ensuring the pants stay in place.
• Equipped with practical side hand pockets, ideal for storing easily accessible personal items or for keeping hands warm.
• A back pocket provides additional secure storage space for small valuables.
• Elastic cuffs at the ankles ensure a snug fit, maintaining the jogger style and preventing the legs from riding up or causing discomfort.
• The jogger cut offers a modern and athletic look, suitable for a variety of casual settings and relaxed activities.

Materials:

• The main body of the jogger is made from a blend of 60% cotton and 40% polyester. This combination offers the natural softness, breathability, and comfort of cotton, while polyester provides durability, wrinkle resistance, and better moisture management properties compared to pure cotton, facilitating faster drying. This fabric is designed to provide a pleasant feel against the skin and withstand daily wear.
• The rib-knit fabric (bord-côte), present in the waistband and cuffs, is composed of 58% cotton, 39% polyester, and 3% elastane. This specific blend for adjustment areas combines the comfort of cotton and the resistance of polyester with the fundamental elasticity of elastane, allowing these areas to stretch for ease of movement and recover their shape, ensuring a snug and durable fit without restricting mobility.

Eco-Certifications and Brand Sustainability Practices:

• bluesign® System Partner: The brand is a bluesign® System Partner, which signifies a commitment to sustainable textile production, minimizing environmental impact and ensuring the responsible use of resources and safe chemicals in part of its supply chain. This standard helps ensure that textiles are safe for workers, consumers, and the environment.
• The brand adheres to its own Manufacturing Practices Standards (SMP), which govern labor and environmental conditions in its factories, seeking to ensure fair treatment for workers and minimize ecological impact.
• Use of the Higg Index (Facility Environmental Module - FEM): Columbia uses this tool from the Sustainable Apparel Coalition to measure and improve the environmental performance of its manufacturing facilities, promoting resource efficiency and emissions reduction.
• Participation in the Social & Labor Converged Assessment Framework (SLCP): This program seeks to reduce the duplication of social and labor audits in the supply chain, promoting better working conditions in a more efficient manner.
• Restricted Substances List (RSL): Columbia maintains a Restricted Substances List to control and limit the use of potentially harmful chemicals in its products, contributing to consumer and environmental safety.
• The brand has a Materials Traceability Program, focused on increasing transparency and knowledge about the origin of materials used in its products.
• Solution Dyeing (Dope Dye / "Colored with Less Water"): Although not specified for this product, the brand uses solution dyeing processes for some of its materials, a technique that significantly reduces water, energy, and chemical consumption compared to traditional dyeing methods.
• Turkmen Cotton Pledge (Responsible Sourcing Network): The brand has adhered to the Turkmen Cotton Pledge, stating its rejection of the use of cotton from Turkmenistan obtained through forced labor, thereby promoting responsible cotton sourcing.
• Additionally, the brand is part of various industry alliances and supports environmental conservation, labor rights, and supply chain transparency projects through its participation in: AFIRM Group (chemical management), Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) Climate Action Corps, Apparel Impact Institute (Aii) - Clean by Design Program, Transparency Pledge, AAFA & FLA Apparel & Footwear Industry Commitment to Responsible Recruitment, and the European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA). It also reports according to SASB standards and publishes a Supply Chain Transparency Statement.
• The company aligns its efforts with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), uses Open Supply Hub (OSH) for its supply chain transparency, and collaborates with foundations such as Planet Water Foundation, National Park Foundation, Conservation International, Captains For Clean Water, Ocean Conservancy, and UK National Parks, in addition to supporting programs like ReThreads, RISE (formerly HERproject), Transition Projects, and the Collegiate Outdoor Recreation Program. Some of its supplier factories have Fair Trade Certification and participate in the Carbon Leadership Project.