Colored Armwear tags

I was thinking if we should unify the color armwear tags like we did for legwear.

So far, only gloves get frequent color_* recognition but, with this we could lob in the detached sleeves and bridal gauntlets as well.

Of course, the tag wouldn't apply if the only armwear is part of a shirt/bodysuit/shrug, etc. as they are part of the whole and, should be the same color. Raglan sleeves should probably be included in the exception for consistency.

An iffy part would be where the designate the end of 'armwear'. Should it include palm gloves? Or would those get a separate tag?

What do y'all think?

I'm tentatively in favor of this proposal, if only to forestall the further proliferation of unnecessary color/pattern tags for minor accessories like sweatbands and arm warmers. We already have tags such as these for armbands, wristbands, and wrist cuffs, which in my opinion is going way too far down the path of tagging insignificant minutiae.

Then again, I'm not sure little things like wristbands are even important enough to be worth grouping under an *_armwear tag. Does anyone here tag colored anklebands and thigh straps as *_legwear? I sure don't.

iridescent_slime said:

I'm tentatively in favor of this proposal, if only to forestall the further proliferation of unnecessary color/pattern tags for minor accessories like sweatbands and arm warmers. We already have tags such as these for armbands, wristbands, and wrist cuffs, which in my opinion is going way too far down the path of tagging insignificant minutiae.

Then again, I'm not sure little things like wristbands are even important enough to be worth grouping under an *_armwear tag. Does anyone here tag colored anklebands and thigh straps as *_legwear? I sure don't.

I agree that making colour tags for those items are overkill, not sure about the proposal or if they should be included if so.

iridescent_slime said:

I'm tentatively in favor of this proposal, if only to forestall the further proliferation of unnecessary color/pattern tags for minor accessories like sweatbands and arm warmers. We already have tags such as these for armbands, wristbands, and wrist cuffs, which in my opinion is going way too far down the path of tagging insignificant minutiae.

Then again, I'm not sure little things like wristbands are even important enough to be worth grouping under an *_armwear tag. Does anyone here tag colored anklebands and thigh straps as *_legwear? I sure don't.

I'm more inclined to go with the 2nd part, were we do the same as with the thigh_strap, anklet and thigh ribbon..., consider them separately as accessories and jewelry and not garment for that portion of the body.

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but if we do want to include them, then we're already getting to the 'splitting up the arm' part :/,
wrist/sweatbands being best included as "wristwear" if we want to make that, even of they can fall up to the elbow and, armstrap/band being armwear

something like this:
- colored*_handwear
- colored*_wristwear
- colored*_armwear

and that's it, we would be going up to the shoulder.

I'd be okay with a set of wristwear tags (although possibly not extended to jewellery like bracelets and bangles), but don't like armwear. Having the same tag for elbow gloves/bridal gauntlets etc. (which are stuff worn on the hand that happens to extend up the arm) as for detached sleeves/arm_warmers (which are things worn over the arm that can also sometimes fall over part or all of the hand) just seems completely wrong to me. And if we don't include elbow gloves etc. then you're basically just left with detached sleeves and arm warmers, neither of which have their own colour tags at present. I'd actually be okay with that (especially given the propensity for arm warmers to get tagged as detached sleeves by mistake) although it would create questions around "gloves where the hand is not in the image" cases like post #3229266.

The legwear, neckwear and footwear tags sort of work only because the same character will very rarely be wearing multiple types one over the top of another (when they are different colours and lengths on opposite arms the image should get both asymmetrical and mismatched legwear/footwear) - there are only 45 images with the necktie/neck_ribbon/solo combination* and most of those are where one or the other is not being worn by a character. Wristwear is similar although without the mismatched/asymmetrical tags at present. By comparison, wearing multiple things that would count as armwear, one over the top of another, is relatively common - there are 1919 images tagged with the elbow gloves/detached sleeves/solo combination** (yes I know some are mistags, but so are some of the 45 necktie/neck_ribbon/solo ones) and them being the same colour is if anything rarer than them not.

In other words, different types of "armwear" are not worn instead of one another in the way that different types of footwear, legwear and neckwear - and indeed wristwear - are.

Wristwear certainly shouldn't be included with armwear.

*about 0.4% of the neck_ribbon solo combination.
**about 2.5% of the elbow_gloves solo combination. Detached_sleeves arm_warmers solo is over 10% of the arm_warmers solo count, but that's largely due to mistagging rather than one being worn over the other.