Pants with rip-stop and mechanical stretch

Pants comprising:

• a waist portion;
• and
• leg portions,
• wherein at least one of the waist portion or the leg portions comprises a ripstop fabric,
• wherein the ripstop fabric comprises:
• spun yarns and mechanical stretch yarns interwoven into the spun yarns in a plain weave pattern in which:
• the spun yarns comprise twelve of the spun yarns arranged sequentially from a first yarn to a twelfth yarn of the spun yarns;
• the mechanical stretch yarns comprise twelve of the mechanical stretch yarns arranged sequentially from a first yarn to a twelfth yarn of the mechanical stretch yarns;
• and
• each of the first, third, fifth, seventh, ninth, and eleventh yarns of the twelve of the mechanical stretch yarns passes under each of the first, third, fifth, seventh, ninth, and eleventh yarns of the twelve of the spun yarns, and over each of the second, fourth, sixth, eighth, tenth, and twelfth yarns of the twelve of the spun yarns;
• an additional mechanical stretch yarn that is woven together with a yarn of the twelve of the mechanical stretch yarns;
• and
• an additional spun yarn is woven together with a yarn of the twelve of the spun yarns,
• wherein the mechanical stretch yarns consist of multi-component polyester yarns or elasterell-p multi-component filament yarns.