Columbia Sportswear Women's Benton Springs Fleece
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Description of Columbia Sportswear Women's Benton Springs Fleece
Stay toasty and warm in this Benton Springs Zipper FleeceT from Columbia?. "Maximum Thermal Retention" fleece offers quick-drying, non-pilling performance. The jacket zips up the front and features a drawcord hem and hand-warming pockets.There's a reason that this Benton Springs Sweater is Columbia Sportswear's best-selling fleece style. The Benton's simplicity is its greatest strength. Made with MTR (Maximum Thermal Retention) fleece, you'll find the non-pilling, easy care fleece a blessing. Low-profile hand-warming pockets don't snag on whatever you're layering it under. Radial sleeves give freedom of movement for any sport or activity. Worn alone in the spring, or as a perfect layering piece, the Benton Springs is just plain good fleece.
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 ski-wear 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. They 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.
Apparel reviews of Columbia Sportswear Women's Benton Springs Fleece
Customer Review: Great jacket! Fast shipping!
Rating: 5 Stars
This is a very nice spring jacket. Very soft. I am glad I read other reviews before purchasing. It does run a bit larger than other Womens fleece jackets. I ordered a Large and It fits great! I normally have problems with sleeves being too short but not a problem with this jacket! Very fast shipping, and great price! Customer Review: Okay fleece
Rating: 3 Stars
This is the second Columbia fleece I have owned that the zipper comes undone all the time. It though the first one was a fluke, until I bought a new one and had the same problem after only an hour of wearing it. I love the warmth and feel, but I don't think I will be purchasing anymore.Customer Review: Wonderful Jacket!
Rating: 5 Stars
I loved my black Columbia fleece which I had for four years before loaning it to a friend and never getting it back...I've been been looking for a replacement for months...My sister-in-law was wearing this one over the holidays and I loved it...On a chance I went online to see if I could find it and WOW there it was!
I read the reviews and felt comfortable buying a medium. It is perfect...I wear it everywhere..it is great for layering and it looks great all the time. I've washed it and it comes out looking great....my best clothes purchase of the year. I love just about everything Columbia makes.
Customer Review: Good buy!
Rating: 5 Stars
The jacket is so comfortable! Really nice fabric. Thermal: good for all kinds of weather, since it's not VERY warm, but keeps you warm. You can wear over a t-shirt; turtleneck or sweater. Extremely practical. Wearable & washable. Light, ideal for traveling. The colors are true to the photos.Customer Review: Love this jacket - my favorite!
Rating: 5 Stars
Love this jacket - my favorite! High quality - very thick fleece. Disregard the color shade that you see on this featured image - it really is a better shade of red, not like bright red lipstick color, a little more clam, more like beet shade.