It is a harder task for women who have heavy calves while choosing clothes. After all, women with thick thigh but slim calf are opt for varies of skirt types, apart from the skirts that too tight around the thigh part. For women who have thick calves, what worried them are really much more. They need consider not only the skirt type and pants type, but also the skirt length and pants length.
When it comes to this issue, let’s follow Sara Donaldson-Australian fashion blogger-and learn how to choose our own clothes.
First look at her calf:
Then see another 2 pictures here:
Amazing!!! We cannot see her shortcoming of heavy calves any more, all we can see is her beautiful look and confident smile. So for a woman with same trouble, how to choose clothes that suitable for you?
Preferred pants 1: Flare pants
As we all know, flared pants are designed to fit on thigh part and gradually grow from the knee down. Naturally, this type of pants is especially suitable for women with thick calves.
It is easy for you to find out a suitable flared pants that hide your thick calves. You can choose whatever kind of flared pants you like, there is no problems on how to look better with them. And the tighter trousers on the thighs are better styles for you. This design highlights the slenderness of your thighs and covers the calf fat. Which is a great idea of killing two birds with one stone.
But if your thighs are thick, too, avoid choosing styles that are too tight at the thighs.
Actually, Sara is not just a girl with thick calves. Her limbs should be relatively strong. So when you look at her flared pants, she will definitely choose some pants that are relatively loose overall and the horns are not so big.
Pants Choice 2: Straight pants
Here are another nice pants style for women with thick calves. It is straight pants. This is kind of style be slightly looser in overall circumference, and give enough room for the calves. So you will feel comfortable while wearing straight pants.
Pants Choice 3: Wide-leg pants
Wide-leg pants are a wise choice if you surfaced the same troubles with Sara. Just pay more attention to the drape of fabric when selecting your pants. Comparing the following 2 pictures, the looser the trouser legs, the higher the drape requirements for the fabric. On the contrary, if it is tighter straight pants, in terms of the fabric’s drape, you can lower the requirements slightly. Different status of drape show you different effect.
Skirt choice: various long skirts
When referred to skirts, the first consideration for women with thick calves should be the skirt length. Choose the skirts with length to ankle or mini/short length, don’t wear a skirt just near the calf length. As the long skirt full cover your calf to look slim, and the short length extend the skin color part to weaken your local deficiencies.
Dress style choice 1: A-line
A-line style flared from the waist part, and the open bottom design will weaken the stout of your calves. Especially for the ankle-length/floor-length A-line dress, your calves will be fully covered. And the tight upper body will always give us an illusion of slim.
Dress style choice 2: Off-the-Shoulder
The revealing skin of your shoulders will definitely catch people’s eyes, and they will not noticed your calves.
Dress style choice 3: Asymmetrical Hemline
Asymmetrical hemline and different length design make people’s sight irregular, shift the focus and make you look thinner.
Dress style choice 4: Spaghetti straps
Spaghetti straps design weakens the thickness of the calves by emphasizing the slimness of the upper body. With the lightweight fabric, you will hardly be associated with strong.
Avoid 1: Mermaid skirt
The most taboo thing is to place the complicated design on its defect.Therefore, if your calves are thick, you should avoid choosing mermaid skirts, which will focus people’s eyes on the hemline and your shortcoming will be 100% showed.
Avoid 2: White tight pants
White pants have high requirements for leg shape, especially slim-fitting pants, which will enlarge your turnip legs, which is definitely a disaster!
Avoid 3: Stiletto high heels
Whether it is elegant stiletto boots in winter or cat heels that are popular in spring, they are not a good choice for women with thick calves. On the one hand, too high heels will make the calf muscles tenser, on the other hand, the slender heel will be in sharp contrast with the thick calf, which will give us an illusion that the calves are too thick. So if you have the thick calves, you’d better wear a pair of thick heels with 3-5cm high.
Key point: Be confident
Sometimes, we cannot change our body shape in such a short time, but through putting the overall effect of the match into place, and no one will care if we have elephant legs or a butterfly arms! When you look at Sara’s legs or arms, you will find she is certainly fat. But because she paid more attention to achieve the overall look and always looked confident with the clothes she had worn, people seldom notice her unperfected body shape, but attracted by her perfect matching and confident smile. That is the best way to make ourselves beautiful.
