NemeN Nover Quilted Liner

A liner is the layer nobody photographs and everybody relies on. The design problem is bulk: a mid-layer has to hold warmth without adding the volume that stops a shell from closing over it, and almost every solution to that is a compromise in one direction or the other. The moves here are all about flatness. Raglan sleeves run the seam diagonally from the collar to the underarm instead of setting a sleeve into a shoulder seam, which removes the ridge that a set-in sleeve creates exactly where a shell's shoulder needs to sit smoothly, and it gives the arm more range besides. The chest pocket is welted rather than patched, so it is a slit in the surface instead of a layer on top of it. The quilting holds a polyester fill in place so it cannot migrate to the hem, and the nylon shell takes the friction of a shell sliding over it. It works alone in a mild season, which is worth knowing about a garment sold as a liner. Made in Italy.

Most quilted mid-layers are outerwear that has been demoted, and they wear like it under a shell. This one is designed from the start to have something over it, which is why the sleeves and the pocket are built the way they are.

NemeN builds outerwear as a set rather than as single pieces, and this liner is the middle term of that set.

One hundred percent nylon, quilted, with a polyester fill. Raglan sleeves and a welted chest pocket. Color: Grey. Made in Italy.

Cut flat rather than full, so it fits under a shell without the shell having to be sized up. Raglan sleeves give more shoulder movement than a set-in sleeve at the same chest measurement, which is worth knowing if you are between sizes. A quilted garment holds its own shape and does not follow the body.

Under the 3L Sphere Shell Jacket, which is what it is cut for. Over the Ash Jumbo Pocket T-shirt on its own in a mild season. With the Rise Multipocket Parachute Pant in Pale Olive or Vulcan Soil, where the grays sit together.

Wash a filled garment cool and on its own, and dry it fully before wearing it, because a fill that is still damp at the seams will stay damp. Do not press quilting: heat flattens loft and the loft is the warmth. Our care guidance covers the rest.

The User-Zipped Packable Overpant is the coated ripstop half of the same weather set, and the Puf _ Multipocket Parachute Short is where the same wardrobe goes in summer. Everything we carry from NemeN is listed together.