When you send us a photo of jeans, we can roughly guess which fabric it might be. But just from a fabric catalog, even we sometimes can’t predict how that fabric will actually look once it’s made into jeans. You might love the denim quality in the catalog, but it doesn’t come out in the color you wanted – or for a straight fit pair of jeans, we might make samples from two different fabrics, one with less lycra and one 100% cotton. For example, the lycra might feel barely there in the catalog, but once the jeans are made, it ends up feeling noticeably more stretchy. It’s always better to see it as a finished pair of jeans.