mid-calf

Also consider the flared trumpet-skirt silhouette, which is sassier than an A-line and falls between your lower knee and mid-calf.

Ask Teri Teri Agins 2012

And while willowy beauties like Ms. Fanning may have no reason to conceal their legs, the mid-calf hemline does leave lots to the imagination, making it flattering for any age and body type.

The 75 Percent Solution Alexa Brazilian 2011

Amy Ryan and Christina Hendricks in particular, in quite different but complementary ways, are as close to proof as we'll likely get that God loves us and wants us to be happy (particularly Christina Hendricks in, say, a mid-calf cocktail dress, but I digress ....)

From the Secret Diaries of Lance Mannion: In which I make a quantum leap in the direction of Sarah Jessica Parker and miss 2009

Dressed in Columbine-sheik, his black trench hit him at mid-calf and surrounded his lanky stature like a stiff shield.

Berto and Cosi Teri Pastore 2011

A Mexican friend in Chicago finally pointed toward silk chiffon, dressy, garden party dresses, mid-calf length and bare-shouldered, as the dress code for ladies for such an event.

Glimpses: Cuernavaca, Mexico, June 2005 Francine McKenna 2011

Largely dark suits or muted light colors for spring/summer with skirts to the mid-calf.

Lydia Fisher: Red Lips Shake Wall Street! Lydia Fisher 2011

The ankles tend to be the slenderest part so put the hem just below the calf, not mid-calf, or at above the ankle.

Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine 2009

My skirts are mid-calf, and my dresses usually fall between there and my ankles, so movement is not a problem.

Home Living 2009

Largely dark suits or muted light colors for spring/summer with skirts to the mid-calf.

Lydia Fisher: Red Lips Shake Wall Street! Lydia Fisher 2011

In January 2008, the International Association of Athletics Federations deemed that Pistorius – who was born without either fibula, the bone that runs from behind the knee to the ankle, and whose legs were amputated mid-calf when he was 11 months old – was ineligible to compete in its events, notably the Olympics.

Is it fair for 'Blade Runner' Oscar Pistorius to run in London Olympics? 2011