Climalite is a wonderful invention - a soft, lightweight fabric used by Adidas in their sports clothing and designed to let you work up a proper sweat without feeling awfully wet and uncomfortable. The way the fabric is made ensures that your skin can breathe and perspire properly and allows air in to the skin through the mesh-like layer to aid moisture and ventilation.

I own 3 of these short sleeved women's t-shirts in blue, white and pink, they are an absolute essential basic in my work out wardrobe and are so comfortable and robust that I wear them frequently for zumba, running and aerobics workouts. I bought the first one from JJB sports (who stock them in a range of colours and sizes) for £19.99 during their Christmas sale and loved it so much I almost immediately started shopping around for some more.

I quickly discovered that because this is quite a staple from the Adidas range many places stock it, including online stores. Debenhams frequently have these in their sales and Amazon marketplace is a great place to find them also, I have paid £15.99 and £14.99 for my other two so it goes to show that it is well worth shopping around!

These are hard wearing shirts and despite frequent washing and wearing they all have maintained shape and colour and the fabric is as good as new. These are washing machine friendly and made of polyester so they dry very quickly when washed, which is always a benefit.

My only minor quibble with this range is that they only seem to make it in sizes up to a UK 14, luckily this is ok for me but I do feel this is a bit poor when the average UK woman is a size 14/16. In this day and age you would expect major brands like Adidas to support larger women's sizes and this is a bit of a let down.

Aside from this and if they stock your size then these are fab to work out in and highly recommended.