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" What to wear and how to wear it Stylish Obsession of the Month: The Adidas 1 Slap a gadget on a shoe and you&amp;#039;re going to move some product. If there&amp;#039;s one thing consumers seem to love, it&amp;#039;s promises of increased performance. Past forays by shoe companies were primarily gimmicks, like the Reebok Pump, which was basically successful at giving you hand cramps. But every once in a while, a shoe comes along that actually seems capable of improving your game, which is why we&amp;#039;re so enamored of the new Adidas 1 Basketball. It makes a crazy claim--that it senses an athlete&amp;#039;s needs and automatically adapts to them--and then actually backs it up. Using a magnetic sensor in the heel, the shoe measures your foot&amp;#039;s compression and relays that information to a postage-stamp-sized computer embedded in the arch. The processor, which takes one thousand readings per second, then instructs the heel to adjust its cushioning according to your playing style. So if you&amp;#039;re a lumbering Shaq-like center who needs more cushioning for rebounds, the Adidas 1 will soften. If you&amp;#039;re more of an Iverson, varying your heel pressure as you cut through defensive zones, it remembers that, too, and firms up. With all of this technology, it would be easy to assume style would be sacrificed, but it&amp;#039;s not. It might also be the first sneaker that&amp;#039;s smarter than its wearer. Unless, of course, you&amp;#039;ve got Stephen Hawking playing low post. $250; shopadidas.com.  Crossover Appeal: Tumi We&amp;#039;re normally skeptical of brands that try to parlay success in one endeavor into another that&amp;#039;s completely different. So it&amp;#039;s with confidence that we can recommend the new line of packable cross-training gear from luggage maker Tumi, which features high-tech fabrics that include a layer of silver to eliminate odor and static. Along with workout shorts, shirts, and pants, the pullover warm-up jacket here is superlightweight. And since it&amp;#039;s made by a company that specializes in travel, the jacket is durable and can be folded up cleanly into its own front pocket for easy packing. $150; tumi.com.  Make Like Kelly Slater If you can barely stand up on a surfboard, you&amp;#039;ll still find the digital tide-prediction function on Quik-silver&amp;#039;s new Deep watch handy for clairvoyance on the beach. World-champ surfer Kelly Slater uses its fifteen-year archive of tide data on two hundred of the world&amp;#039;s best surfing locales to catch his next wave. For the amateur, its timing functions and easy-to-read display will do right by you, too. $129; quiksilver.com.  How to Dress Like:  Bjorn Borg at Wimbledon We won&amp;#039;t be bidding on any of Borg&amp;#039;s Wimbledon trophies, but we do favor(1)the headband, which is acceptable on tennis courts again. Borg kicked McEnroe&amp;#039;s ass in a (2) Fila shirt,and the Italian sportswear company still makes Borg-like court wear. Those tiny shorts ride high, but(3) a pair from Lacostewill have you swearing you won 8--6 in the fifth set. As for the shoes, you can&amp;#039;t get more authentic than (4)Diadora&amp;#039;s Bjorn Borgs. After all, the Ice Man was nothing if not the real thing. (1) Cotton headband ($6) and (2) cotton shirt ($60) by Fila; (3) cotton-and-polyester shorts ($95) by Lacoste; (4) leather tennis shoes ($45) by Diadora. Three Big Trends Whether you&amp;#039;re a gym rat or not, this spring you can take advantage of three current athletic-inspired trends, such as a focus on the outdoors, where functionality and durability are the name of the game. The mainstays of the track and the field remind us of their everyday potential, while sailingand all its preppy connotations have also taken hold. OUTDOORS 1)Nylon Terra 40 backpack ($99) by the North Face.2) Summitscape Low Day Hiker ($85) by Timberland. 3)Microfleece R4 jacket ($190) by Patagonia. THE TRACK &amp;amp;amp; THE FIELD 1)Cotton-polyester-Lycra U. S. national team World Cup soccer jersey ($70) and shorts ($36) by Nike.2)M891 running shoe ($80) by New Balance. 3)Synthetic-blend long-sleeved shirt ($50) by Under Armour. SAILING 1)Canvas boat bag ($950) by Tod&amp;#039;s. 2)Leather deck shoe ($460) by Louis Vuitton. 3)Cashmere Dinghi Windmate jacket ($1,695) by Loro Piana. How to Dress for Exercise AS YOUR COMMITMENT RISES, SO DO YOUR SHORTS YOUR COMMITMENT: You haven&amp;#039;t worked out since high school. YOUR OUTFIT: Since you haven&amp;#039;t strapped on a pair of running shoes since PE class, you should piece together an outfit that remains true to your intentions. Board shorts with a floral pattern say you&amp;#039;re prepared for the pool, if only for a soak instead of twenty laps. Your old AC/DC T-shirt will do just fine, as will those Sperry Top-Siders. Tan your ankles and tone your biceps by curling a dry martini. A man&amp;#039;s got to ease into the idea of breaking a sweat. YOUR COMMITMENT: Thirty minutes at the gym, three times a week. YOUR OUTFIT: Go ahead and throw on your college T-shirt--it&amp;#039;s the only thing left from your blissful days of not worrying about your weight. Athletic shorts just above the knee, along with trusty cotton tube socks, will do you just fine as you cycle through circuit training and a modest round of cardio. Spend a little extra on cross-trainers, if only to give the impression that you hit the treadmill seven days a week instead of three. YOUR COMMITMENT: You run a sub-six-minute mile. You eat PowerBars. YOUR OUTFIT: Those skimpy little running shorts may show too much leg for the rest of us, but it&amp;#039;s their ease of movement that you covet. A sleeveless tee in a high-tech fabric ensures that your arms are unencumbered. It&amp;#039;ll also wick away all that sweat. And you have huge, glorious calves, so you wear minimal socks and highly functional running shoes to show them off. They&amp;#039;ll distract from your skimpy shorts. The Definitions: Athletic Fabrics THEIR NAMES SOUND FANCY. THAT&amp;#039;S BECAUSE THEY ARE. ClimaCool: Technology used by Adidas not only to wick away moisture from the skin but also to regulate body temperature, warming the skin during initial exercise and cooling it when the body temp rises. Gore-tex: A patented membrane that keeps water out but lets sweat vapor escape. It&amp;#039;s applied to numerous high-tech fabrics for water and wind resistance. Microtene: Lightweight water-resistant fabric developed by Italian fashion house Ermenegildo Zegna for its active jackets and pullovers. Polartec: Made by the originators of the fleece jacket, Malden Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, this fabric has been used by nearly every Everest expedition since 1981 and is a regular tool of marathoners and the U. S. Special Forces. A combination of polyester and wick-away technology, it&amp;#039;s ultralightweight. Storm System:Luxury clothier Loro Piana patented this treatment to make natural fibers such as cashmere, cotton, and linen waterproof and wind-resistant without losing their supple virtues. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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