Basic Wear to Practice

if you wear a 3/4 length yoga pant you are all good......but yes, i have occasionally caught a heel in a hem and volleyed myself across the room...good fun...but I am well padded
 
Yeah I do that rarely enough that I just deal with tripping sometimes. I really strongly dislike skirts, and I'm so short that I have to hem the pants anyway, so its never a length thing because if I didn't hem them I'd be tripping just walking.
 
I will wear a skort for latin...I don't have a long skirt with built-in underbits for smooth/standard...and therefore have no intention of over-sharing KWIM?
 
I do not wear stretch pants with flared bottoms for latin since I normally practice in latin heels; way too much opportunity to catch a heel and end up flat on my - ahem. I will wear pants for smooth and standard when I wear cuban heels.
 
I wear a capri pant with leg warmers if i'm cold for most practice with heels. Tend to wear my full-length pants more when I have practice shoes on, which have the thicker, lower heel.
 
latingal said:
I do not wear stretch pants with flared bottoms for latin since I normally practice in latin heels; way too much opportunity to catch a heel and end up flat on my - ahem. I will wear pants for smooth and standard when I wear cuban heels.
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Hahaha, I have wiped out at least twice doing that! Learned my lesson :)
 
Okay, I don't know what it is about this simple question about yoga pants that's brought me out of lurkdom, but here we go:

FWIW, I dance Bronze/Silver Latin, with a healthy smattering of open for showcases and open scholarships. I have 2 pairs of yoga pants. A pair of regular cotton knit ones, and a pair I got last-minute from NY & Company (had a lesson and forgot to bring a change of clothes with me, that was the easiest place to get to). I catch my heel ALL.THE.TIME. in the regular pair, to the point where I almost refuse to wear them to lessons.

But the nylon-blend pair from NY&Co. are awesome. They're much stretchier than the cotton pair, look much more "expensive," fall nicely along my leg and ankle, and (best part) don't stretch out at the knee after I've been wearing them for a few minutes. I *never* catch my heels in these pants. I don't know whether it's a function of the material or the stitching used on the hem or just what, but even in my 3" competition heels I don't have to worry about tripping on them. Unfortunately it doesn't look like NY&Co. has any of that type of pant available right now, but if you can find a style similar in that kind of material, I'd definitely try them out before you give up on yoga pants entirely.

Just my $0.02, in any case!
 
I've wiped out occasionally, but not often enough to stop wearing pants. My legs are stumpy, capris make them look stumpier. Like I said though, I do hem my pants so they are physically not long enough for me to step on.
 
a)welcome music chica :)
b) I too am a woman of the stumpy legs....but, usually a 3/4 length yoga pant is flared just below the knee rather than tight light most capris so it isn't as offensive...but am with you about capris...will not be caought dead in them...they are for skinny people...as are leggings...no matter how much I wish it was otherwise....
 
katherinejh said:
I've wiped out occasionally, but not often enough to stop wearing pants. My legs are stumpy, capris make them look stumpier. Like I said though, I do hem my pants so they are physically not long enough for me to step on.
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For me, it's not stepping on the pants, it's when I do something where the heel of the free leg comes into proximity of the standing leg (by mistake or by design). Then it has a chance of getting caught in the fabric. I don't recall this happening when I wore jeans or dress pants. They either fit snuglier, or I did simpler stuff in my dancing.
 
But the nylon-blend pair from NY&Co. are awesome. They're much stretchier than the cotton pair, look much more "expensive," fall nicely along my leg and ankle, and (best part) don't stretch out at the knee after I've been wearing them for a few minutes. I *never* catch my heels in these pants. I don't know whether it's a function of the material or the stitching used on the hem or just what, but even in my 3" competition heels I don't have to worry about tripping on them.
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This is how I feel about my favorite jazz pants - I wear them essentially every day, and they are AWESOME. (Body Wrappers V-front jazz pants no. 0696) The only time I catch a heel is when I am being sloppy with my feet. So that's my bad anyway. I have definitely never wiped out in these (although I have in other similar flared-leg yoga or jazz pants).
 
I think there are instances where you can catch a heel with the correct foot work (especially if there are large flares on the pants). The speed and position of the feet in multiple three step or chaine type turns tends to wrap the flare portion of the pant around the heel (dangerous with stretch material).
 
Yep. Any movement where one foot comes up above the hem of the pants but the foot stays close to the leg can result in catching the fabric. Again, I've only had this happen with my basic pair of yoga pants and never with the higher-quality pair. Seriously, look for a thicker nylon-blend pair and you shouldn't have any issues.
 
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