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YouLookFab Forum » Topic: I learned a new term https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:34:05 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php Stagiaire Fash on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1933305 Mon, 02 Jul 2018 16:02:30 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 1933305@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Congratulations—you found the button to push to make me log in again, lol! I would love a pair of summer white pants. I recently ordered a slew of them, pretty much whatever Nordy’s & the Rack had. It was awful. White leggings look remarkably similar to bandages, at least on me (and on NBA players who wear those compression leggings). Out of all those options, there was only one pair I really liked. They were actually full length! The material was gauzy, so I’d have to choose undies color carefully, but otherwise they were perfect—except for the cuff. It was just tight enough to keep the pants taut & ridiculous looking. So I ordered up a size. Same thing. Ordered up again (now at XL). The waist is elastic with drawstring, so it was fine in all these sizes, but even the the largest pair got stuck on my calf whenever I bent my leg the least little bit. They all went back, and white pants (full length) are now my HEWI. Nice to know you not only feel my pain, but have a word for it ;) Ps—I’m trying again. Just ordered 3 to pick up in store today. I’ll try them on there. Two others aren’t available, so I’m “saving them for later”. Sal on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1933233 Mon, 02 Jul 2018 08:39:53 +0000 Sal 1933233@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ I have this issue too - it is really frustrating. I have muscular calf muscles and pants can grab me there - it is irritating.  Welcome to the club Sterling but not sure it is a club you wanted to join!!   Straight leg or slim leg can work (and culottes are very freeing!) Jessikams on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1933048 Sun, 01 Jul 2018 11:48:32 +0000 Jessikams 1933048@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Totally hearing you on all of this. I hate it when pants won’t slide back down when I stand up! It is so not graceful to be tugging at your pants in public. Echo on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1932995 Sun, 01 Jul 2018 01:58:31 +0000 Echo 1932995@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ kkards is right. These are normally sausage casings on me. I have healthy calves, and even pants that will fit easily over my hips and thighs often will not pull up over my calves. It's a shame because I prefer tapered pants, but as unfrumped said, I want them to fall back down when I stand up and not get caught on my calves. anne on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1932991 Sun, 01 Jul 2018 01:09:36 +0000 anne 1932991@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ I thought (as I said above) that I didn't have this problem, BUT   I do have that grabbing problem with my exercise tights. I don't usually run in them, but I did yesterday, and stopped mid parkrun just to pull them down. Like the Season on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1932984 Sun, 01 Jul 2018 00:20:33 +0000 Like the Season 1932984@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Yep, I have all of these problems (now cleverly named) thanks to 14 1/2-inch circumference. So annoying when "straight" jeans grab my calves and won't let go. Jane on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1932941 Sat, 30 Jun 2018 21:25:35 +0000 Jane 1932941@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ I find the calf sucking effect even worse when wearing pop sox / knee length hose. I too want trousers that when I sit down and then stand up, fall back down again. May be I am / we are just hoping for too much! Anonymous on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1932827 Sat, 30 Jun 2018 12:34:37 +0000 Anonymous 1932827@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Unfrumped!!!  THAT TOO.  I tried on yet another pair of pants (jeggings this time).  OMG.  They fit so well and were so comfortable .... until I sat down.  The pants rode up, hugged my calves, and no amount of tugging would get them to fall back into place.  I ended up trying to "kick" them down and stressed the knee joint.   Karen13 -- what brilliance!!!  How do you measure the "18” from the inseam?"  From the top - down or vice versa?   kkards on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1932824 Sat, 30 Jun 2018 12:12:19 +0000 kkards 1932824@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ i call that kind of pant "sausage casing".... unfrumped on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1932822 Sat, 30 Jun 2018 12:07:37 +0000 unfrumped 1932822@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ So right! Calf- sucking and “ calf hang-up”. I have a terrible time with the latter. Pants ride up on calves when I sit down and then don’t slide back down when I get up. karen13 on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1932765 Sat, 30 Jun 2018 00:40:04 +0000 karen13 1932765@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Welcome to my world! About a year ago I figured out that I need 15 inches circumference at 18” from the inseam, or I won’t wear it. Now I try to shop with a tape measure, and wont bring it intothe fitting room if it doesn’t measure up. delurked on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1932749 Fri, 29 Jun 2018 23:04:17 +0000 delurked 1932749@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ I was compelled by Runcarla to measure my calves. They are strong and shapely and 15 inches. Anonymous on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1932740 Fri, 29 Jun 2018 21:46:54 +0000 Anonymous 1932740@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Thanks Jenni -- I wondered how to spell it this morning when I was typing my post.  I am going to change it to calf-sucking.  Thanks for not letting me embarrass my publicly.   Jenni NZ on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1932736 Fri, 29 Jun 2018 21:08:34 +0000 Jenni NZ 1932736@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Um, shouldn't it be "calf-sucking"? Or "calves-sucking" with an "s"? Grammar pedant reporting in. Katerina on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1932696 Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:35:13 +0000 Katerina 1932696@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ And now I have just learnt the new term - thank you Sterling! Toban on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1932691 Fri, 29 Jun 2018 17:09:43 +0000 Toban 1932691@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ I’m with Carla and LaPed on this one, our athletic and shapely legs are an asset that rarely works with skinnies. Give me a knee length skirt to show off those curvy calves any day :). LaPed on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1932690 Fri, 29 Jun 2018 16:58:37 +0000 LaPed 1932690@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ I have a 25" waist but my calves measure 14" to15" depending on how much biking and hiking I've been doing (tend to be larger at the end of the summer, smaller at the end of the winter). Everyone talks about waist-to-hip ratio, but no one thinks about waist-to-calf ratio! Skinny jeans, and even some so-called straight-legs, are impossible. I also run into trouble with jogger-style pants because they taper, sometimes too much. The wide leg trend has been very good to me, and I wouldn't say no to bootcuts and flares if they ever come back to the marketplace. Style Fan on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1932684 Fri, 29 Jun 2018 16:36:44 +0000 Style Fan 1932684@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Yes the calve sucking jean.  I have tried on many of these in my life.   anne on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1932657 Fri, 29 Jun 2018 15:02:36 +0000 anne 1932657@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <div>I think you have nice legs too Sterling</div><div> </div><div>I also have 13.5 inch calves (just measured, they've grown!) Carla, but I rarely have this problem owing to larger thighs. In fact I often have jeans of mine that I thought of as skinnies referred to, as relaxed or even boyfriend! </div> Carla on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1932632 Fri, 29 Jun 2018 13:20:41 +0000 Carla 1932632@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ I consider my legs my best feature - but I would be a rich woman if I had a dollar for every pair of pants I tried that i couldn't get over my 13.5 inch calves! It's not you, Sterling! Anonymous on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1932628 Fri, 29 Jun 2018 13:02:19 +0000 Anonymous 1932628@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Sterling, I am so glad that you realized it was not you but the garment. I have 12 inch calves that make it hard to find knee-high boots to fit but have still experienced calve-sucking pants. Same with arms and sleeves. They must make these for skinny 12-year olds. Kathie on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1932619 Fri, 29 Jun 2018 12:39:23 +0000 Kathie 1932619@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ I felt such huge relief when I first read that description here. It was all the permission I needed to not keep trying so hard to make skinnies work for me. Toban on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1932612 Fri, 29 Jun 2018 12:23:28 +0000 Toban 1932612@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Ankle pants are particularly prone to this because they taper. I’ve done the same try-ons with same outcome until I realized it was simply the wrong silhouette for me and my body shape, even when the pants fit. Thistle on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1932611 Fri, 29 Jun 2018 12:12:08 +0000 Thistle 1932611@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Never your body. :) But yeah there's skinnies and there's the 1980's are calling and want their pants back.  Suz on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1932609 Fri, 29 Jun 2018 12:05:06 +0000 Suz 1932609@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Yup -- not your body!  Skinnies are great but there are skinnies and skinnies!  Anonymous on "I learned a new term" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-learned-a-new-term#post-1932607 Fri, 29 Jun 2018 11:51:07 +0000 Anonymous 1932607@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ "Calf sucking."  I probably first encountered that term on this Forum, but I hadn't experienced it personally.  So it was really only an idea or concept in the back of my brain.   Fast forward to June and it feels like I have tried on hundreds of pants these past few months.  Some of them fit amazingly well in the waist and hips, but unfortunately, they were "calf sucking."  At first, I thought it was my body that was the problem.  I was going to try to make them work because they DID fit so well in the waist and hips.  Then in the deep, deep recesses of my brain, I remembered having seen this term.  Suddenly I realized the problem was NOT my body, but the pants themselves.  Oh, the relief.   Thank you, Forum.