I was scrolling through it, and like 90% of the images are just of of characters wearing different legwears, such as thigh highs and stockings (which are explicitly mentioned in the Leggings wiki not to be tagged as leggings). Why is this such a commonly misused tag??

because people don't read tag wikis before adding a tag that they're not sure about. the same reason anything is mistagged.

darryus said:
because people don't read tag wikis before adding a tag that they're not sure about. the same reason anything is mistagged.

https://e621.net/posts/3433160 LOL, yeah, mentioning... see my comment. I had to look that up to be sure (it's a leg warmer).

golder06 said:
I was scrolling through it, and like 90% of the images are just of of characters wearing different legwears, such as thigh highs and stockings (which are explicitly mentioned in the Leggings wiki not to be tagged as leggings). Why is this such a commonly misused tag??

Nothing stopping you from fixing the tags yourself.

alphamule said:
https://e621.net/posts/3433160 LOL, yeah, mentioning... see my comment. I had to look that up to be sure (it's a leg warmer).

are those leg warmers? I thought that legwarmers were those baggy things that are worn around the ankle that were popular in the 80s. these: post #3416194

it's weird because the wiki page says specifies "lower legs" in bold and then gives two image examples with thigh_highs and only one with it covering the lower legs... and the images and text in the body were the same person.

darryus said:
are those leg warmers? I thought that legwarmers were those baggy things that are worn around the ankle that were popular in the 80s. these: post #3416194

it's weird because the wiki page says specifies "lower legs" in bold and then gives two image examples with thigh_highs and only one with it covering the lower legs... and the images and text in the body were the same person.

https://e621.net/wiki_pages/8680

This is a general tag is used when a character is wearing coverings on their lower legs which are similar to thick socks, but are generally footless.

I was trying to find which sock/legging/stocking/etc.-like clothing has feet bare and doesn't come to the waist (these only come to the thigh).

alphamule said:
I was trying to find which sock/legging/stocking/etc.-like clothing has feet bare and doesn't come to the waist (these only come to the thigh).

but thighs are upper leg, so leg_warmers shouldn't apply, thigh_highs would.

darryus said:
but thighs are upper leg, so leg_warmers shouldn't apply, thigh_highs would.

I'm beginning to see why these tags are all done wrong... :facepalm: