Women’s Adidas x IVY PARK Allover Print Sheer Tights (XS – XL) | Finish Line

Adidas AG (German pronunciation: [ˈʔadiˌdas] ; stylized in all lowercase since 1949) is a German athletic apparel and footwear corporation headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany. It is the largest sportswear manufacturer in Europe, and the second largest in the world, after Nike. It is the holding company for the Adidas Group, which also owns an 8.33% stake of the football club Bayern Munich, and Runtastic, an Austrian fitness technology company. Adidas's revenue for 2018 was listed at €21.915 billion.

The company was started by Adolf Dassler in his mother's house. He was joined by his elder brother Rudolf in 1924 under the name Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik ("Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory"). Dassler assisted in the development of spiked running shoes (spikes) for multiple athletic events. To enhance the quality of spiked athletic footwear, he transitioned from a previous model of heavy metal spikes to utilising canvas and rubber. Dassler persuaded U.S. sprinter Jesse Owens to use his handmade spikes at the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1949, following a breakdown in the relationship between the brothers, Adolf created Adidas and Rudolf established Puma, which became Adidas's business rival.

The three stripes are Adidas's identity mark, having been used on the company's clothing and shoe designs as a marketing aid. The branding, which Adidas bought in 1952 from Finnish sports company Karhu Sports for the equivalent of €1,600 and two bottles of whiskey, became so successful that Dassler described Adidas as "The three stripes company".

Finish may refer to:

• Finishing (whisky), in the distillation of Scotch
• The aftertaste of an alcoholic beverage, particularly for:
  • whisky
  • wine
• Finished good, a good that is completed as to manufacturing but not yet sold or distributed to the end-user
• Surface finishing, various industrial processes for modifying a workpiece's surface
  • Mechanical finish, processes that modify a surface using mechanical means
• Wood finishing, the process of embellishing and/or protecting the surface of wooden objects

Line most often refers to:

• Line (geometry), object that has zero thickness and curvature and stretches to infinity
• Telephone line, a single-user circuit on a telephone communication system

Line, lines, The Line, or LINE may also refer to:

S, or for lowercase, s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ess (pronounced ), plural esses.

Sheer may refer to:

• Sheer fabric, a semi-transparent and flimsy fabric
• Sheer (ship), a measure of longitudinal deck curvature in naval architecture
• Sheer curation, a lightweight approach to digital curation
• Sheer Islands, Nunavut, Canada
• Sheers, a form of two-legged lifting device
• Ireen Sheer, a German-British pop singer
• The Sheer, a Dutch pop band

Tights are a kind of cloth garment, most often sheathing the body from the waist to the toe tips with a tight fit, hence the name. They come in absolute opaque, opaque, sheer and fishnet styles — or a combination, such as the original concept of the American term pantyhose with sheer legs and opaque panty.

X, or x, is the twenty-fourth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ex (pronounced ), plural exes.