Adidas Sleeveless Running Shirt : More Than Just a Tank Top

Sometimes a white tank top is not just a white tank top. The Adidas Erickson Sleeveless Top is the best case in point I’ve got in my workout wardrobe. This is a great piece of high performance clothing.

Fit for feel and function

I really like the way this top fits. On close inspection you can see that it is made with a highly complex and multi-directional weave designed to fit to an active human torso—not just hang from it. Yet, despite this more formed fit, in all the time I’ve spent wearing it in the weight room or when running up all 55 flights of the tallest building in Minneapolis, I’ve always found it to be non-constrictive and, most importantly, extremely comfortable. It’s lightweight and the weave is so fine that it creates a silky inner liner that slides almost, shall I say, pleasurably over my skin. But despite being such a fine weave, the fabric breathes beautifully—you can see right through it when held up to the light, though have no fear if you’re modest, when worn it sufficiently obscures what’s underneath. According to my wife, it does more than just obscure my torso. She seems to think it accentuates my chest. Certainly my cyclist’s chest needs some help and seems to get it, at least a little bit, from the inward swoop of the complex weave pattern I already mentioned—a play on the whole vertical lines make me look taller concept. Hey, if a sleeveless top can keep you happy when you put it through extreme paces and, magically, make you look a bit better than you actually do—well then, kudos.

Bottom Line: Great fitting top that’s race ready, a true pleasure to wear, and, according to my wife, cute and well worth the price.—D.C. (March 06)

Price: $28

Manufacturer's Site: www.adidas.com

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*editor's note: shirt pictured is the similarly styled Adidas SuperNova Sleeveless top. Photo for Erickson top not available.