Columbia Women's Code 9 Softshell

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This jacket is one part sunrise snowshoe, one part slushy spring day, and one part chilling over a pastry at the corner café. The sweetly versatile Code 9 Softshell is both stylish and cozy, featuring a flattering cut and our super-comfortable Pinnacle softshell fabric with Omni-Shield advanced repellency. Four-way stretch and supreme breathability means that this lightweight jacket keeps you comfortable in all manner of high-octane activities. Plus, specially designed comfort cuffs keep arctic wind gusts from penetrating the wrist area. Store snacks and cell phones in thoughtfully placed zip-closed pockets. Active fit.

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Stylish, cozy, and versatile, this women's softshell sports a flattering cut and Columbia's comfortable Pinnacle fabric with Omni-Shield advanced repellency. Four-way stretch and supreme breathability make this lightweight jacket ideal in a variety of outdoor activities. Specially designed comfort cuffs keep arctic wind gusts from penetrating the wrist area. The thoughtfully placed, zippered pockets are handy for storing snacks and cell phones. This product is part of Columbia's Titanium collection, which blends innovative design, fabrics, and technologies with an active fit for intense activity.

Omni-Shield Advanced Repellency is a barrier that resists light rain and stains, keeping you clean and protected. This coated fabric resists all liquids below 170 degrees F from absorbing into the yarns and staining the garment. (The treatment has no noticeable effect on the feel of the material.) The fabric itself will also dry three to five times faster than untreated fabric and will not hold moisture like a conventional fabric, thus remaining lightweight even when wet.

Product Features:

• Shell: 92 percent polyester, 8 percent elastane
• Lining: 100 percent polyester tricot
• Cuff: 94 percent polyester, 6 percent elastane double knit
• Omni-Shield advanced repellency
• Laminate waterproof, breathable softshell
• Four-way comfort stretch
• Zip-closed pockets
• Comfort cuffs
• Center-back length: 24.5 inches
• Imported

Manufacturer's Warranty
Columbia Outerwear comes with a limited lifetime warranty. This includes defects in zipper pulls, zippers, snaps, stitching, dye bleeding, leaking of Columbia's waterproof outerwear line, and any other outerwear defects that may occur under normal wear. Columbia does not warranty and is not responsible for damages caused by misuse, abuse, accidents, the natural breakdown of materials over time, or problems that may be reasonably expected with normal wear or failure to follow outerwear care instructions.

About Columbia Sportswear
Founded in 1938, Columbia Sportswear Company has grown from a small family-owned hat distributor to one of the world's largest outerwear brands and the leading seller of skiwear in the United States. Columbia's extensive product line includes a wide variety of outerwear, sportswear, rugged footwear and accessories. Columbia specializes in developing innovative products that are functional yet stylish and offer great value. Eighty-year-old matriarch Gert Boyle, chairman of the board, and her son, Tim Boyle, president and CEO, lead the company.

Columbia's history starts with Gert's parents, Paul and Marie Lamfrom, when they fled Germany in 1937. They bought a small hat distributorship in Portland, Oregon, and named it Columbia Hat Company, after the river bordering the city. Soon frustrated by poor deliveries from suppliers, the Lamfroms decided to start manufacturing products themselves. In 1948, Gert married college sweetheart Neal Boyle, who joined the family business and later took the helm of the growing company. When Neal suddenly died of a heart attack in 1970, Gert enlisted help from Tim, then a college senior. After that it wasn't long before business really started to take off. Columbia was one of the first companies to make jackets from waterproof/breathable fabric. The company introduced the breakthrough technology called the Columbia Interchange System, in which a shell and liner combine for multiple wearing options. In the early 1980s, then-60-year-old Gert began her role as "Mother Boyle" in Columbia's successful and popular advertising campaign.

The company went public in 1998 and moved into a new era as a world leader in the active outdoor apparel industry. Today, Columbia Sportswear employs more than 1,800 people around the world and distributes and sells products in more than 50 countries and to more than 12,000 retailers internationally.

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