Meridian Creek Quarter Zip women's

Use:

• Ideal as a versatile mid-layer, perfect for combining with other garments and adapting to different weather conditions, providing a lightweight and soft layer of warmth.
• Designed to provide warmth and comfort for everyday wear, making it an excellent choice for casual activities, leisure time, and for being at home during cooler seasons.
• Perfect for relaxed walks in the city or nature, urban errands, or as a comfortable and functional garment for travel.
• Its quarter-zip design offers adaptable ventilation and makes it easy to layer over other garments, responding to the need for functionality and style in an active lifestyle.
• Manufactured by Columbia to offer a garment that combines the softness of fleece with a practical design, focused on comfort and ease of use.

Features:

• Front quarter-zip that allows for adjustable ventilation and facilitates layering, adapting to temperature changes and comfort needs.
• Ribbed cuffs that provide a comfortable and snug fit at the wrists, helping to retain body heat and preventing sleeves from riding up during movement.
• Ribbed hem that ensures a comfortable fit at the waist, helping to retain heat and offering a stylish and defined finish to the garment.
• Interior locker loop at the upper back, a practical detail designed to easily hang the garment without deforming the neck area.
• Center back length of 64.8 cm (25.5 inches), offering adequate coverage and a standard fit that flatters the female silhouette.
• Loose fit design, as indicated in the size guide as "Loose Fit: Looser fit for full range of motion", ensuring comfort and ease of layering.

Materials:

• Mainly made with a blend of 60% cotton and 40% polyester in its outer layer. This combination seeks the perfect balance between the natural softness, breathability, and comfort of cotton, with the durability, wrinkle resistance, and quick-drying capacity provided by polyester.
• The resulting fabric is a super-soft fleece to the touch, providing comfortable warmth without excessive weight, making it ideal for casual use and as an efficient mid-layer in layered clothing systems.
• Although an exact thickness or denier is not specified, its description as 'warm fleece' suggests a medium weight, optimal for providing warmth in cool climates or as part of a layering system in colder conditions, without adding unnecessary bulk.
• This garment is not designed to be waterproof; its main focus is warmth and breathable comfort in dry conditions or as a protected layer under an outer jacket in case of light rain. The inherent breathability of the cotton and polyester blend, along with the structure of the fleece fabric, allows for adequate moisture vapor evacuation, helping to maintain comfort during use.

Eco-certifications and Brand Sustainability Practices:

• The brand applies a Restricted Substances List (RSL) to control and limit the use of potentially harmful chemicals in its products, aiming to protect consumer health and minimize the environmental impact of its processes.
• It adheres to Standards of Manufacturing Practices (SMP) that establish guidelines for quality, safety, and ethics in its production processes, seeking to ensure product integrity and labor welfare.
• Columbia is a bluesign® System Partner, collaborating with a comprehensive system that seeks to optimize sustainability in the textile supply chain, from fiber to finished product, minimizing environmental impact and promoting the safe use of chemicals and resources.
• It uses the Higg Index (Facility Environmental Module - FEM) in its facilities to measure and improve the environmental performance of its factories, promoting efficiency in the use of resources such as water and energy, and reducing emissions.
• It participates in the Social & Labor Converged Assessment Framework (SLCP) to assess and improve labor conditions in its supply chain, promoting fair, safe, and dignified treatment for workers involved in manufacturing its products.
• As a member of the AFIRM Group, the brand actively works to reduce the use of harmful substances in the textile and footwear industry supply chain, promoting the development of safer products for people and the ecosystem.
• The brand implements a Materials Traceability Program that seeks to track the origin of its key components, contributing to greater transparency and accountability in its value chain, allowing for more informed decisions about its suppliers.
• The brand promotes more sustainable dyeing practices such as Solution Dyeing (Dope Dye / "Colored with Less Water"), which significantly reduces the consumption of water, energy, and chemicals compared to traditional fabric dyeing methods, when this technology is applicable to the product.
• Through its ReThreads program, Columbia promotes circularity and the reduction of textile waste, offering options for recycling garments at the end of their useful life, contributing to a more circular economy.
• Additionally, Columbia Sportswear demonstrates its commitment to sustainability through participation in initiatives such as the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) Climate Action Corps for climate action, the Apparel Impact Institute's (Aii) Clean by Design program for factory efficiency, adherence to the Turkmen Cotton Pledge for responsible cotton sourcing, and the AAFA & FLA Apparel & Footwear Industry Commitment to Responsible Recruitment for ethical labor practices. The brand also promotes transparency through the Transparency Pledge and the use of Open Supply Hub, and aligns its efforts with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and SASB reporting standards.
• The brand supports various environmental conservation and social welfare foundations and projects, such as Planet Water Foundation, National Park Foundation, Conservation International, Captains For Clean Water, Ocean Conservancy, UK National Parks, and Transition Projects, among others, reinforcing its commitment to protecting the planet and supporting communities.