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iridescent slime

Sacriven said:

Ugh, I've a hard time to distinguish between dress , shirt, blouse, and dress_shirt
Can someone show me the obvious differences between them?

It's hard to provide clear or concise definitions for terms that tend to be used very broadly and which often overlap. This is one of those subjects where I know it when I see it, but good luck finding someone who can adequately explain it in a single sentence.

  • Dresses are usually the easiest to identify. If a single garment covers the torso and hangs low enough to at least cover the hips and buttocks like a skirt, and it isn't simply an oversized shirt, it's most likely a dress. If the outfit consists of two matched pieces (usually a skirt and a blouse or vest), then it's a skirt set, not a dress. Fancy dresses that are very long and billow out are gowns.
  • Shirts are the basic upper-body garment. You should be using this tag by default unless another tag (like blouse or camisole or crop top) would be more appropriate.
  • Blouses are like shirts but different in ways that are a bit tricky to describe because of the endless number of variations. Most blouses tend to be made of lighter, more "flowy" materials that drape loosely across the body, though some can be fairly close-fitting. They can have a collar or no collar, and any type of neckline. They can have long or short sleeves or may be sleeveless; puffy sleeves are common but not required. They may be pullovers, have button closures, or may be designed to be tied in front. They may very feminine and adorned with lace or frills, but they can also be of simple design, like the blouses worn with school or work uniforms. The wiki for blouse states that they are "designed to hang outside the clothes", but there's no rule that they can't be tucked in as well. Historically, it was usually the case that men wore shirts and women wore blouses, but there have been some very blouse-like shirts designed for men, and women can wear whatever they want nowadays. When in doubt, just use the shirt tag.
  • Dress shirts are as the wiki describes. If a shirt has a collar and buttons going down the front, this tag applies (if the shirt has two or three buttons at the top rather than all the way down, use the polo shirt tag instead). Dress shirts can be formal or casual, short-sleeved or long-sleeved, and can come in any print or color. Men and women alike wear dress shirts, and they're a typical component of suits and some uniforms.

If that isn't helpful enough, please feel free to reply with any posts you're unsure about. I've had precious little time to spare lately but there are others here who are knowledgeable about fashion and would be able to identify most of the types of outfits you're likely to encounter in real life.

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ghostrigger

EB said:

There needs to be a tag for the symbol ⚥ (post #2130099, post #1108075, post #2312371) as a simple mars_symbol venus_symbol search doesn't suffice to find it easily.

The Unicode name is apparently "male and female sign", though using "symbol" is more common than "sign" in tagging here, and it would be inconsistent with the base tags being the planets.

male-female_symbol is used by some. however, this is potentially ambiguous as different combination exists.

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Sacriven

iridescent_slime said:

It's hard to provide clear or concise definitions for terms that tend to be used very broadly and which often overlap. This is one of those subjects where I know it when I see it, but good luck finding someone who can adequately explain it in a single sentence.

  • Dresses are usually the easiest to identify. If a single garment covers the torso and hangs low enough to at least cover the hips and buttocks like a skirt, and it isn't simply an oversized shirt, it's most likely a dress. If the outfit consists of two matched pieces (usually a skirt and a blouse or vest), then it's a skirt set, not a dress. Fancy dresses that are very long and billow out are gowns.
  • Shirts are the basic upper-body garment. You should be using this tag by default unless another tag (like blouse or camisole or crop top) would be more appropriate.
  • Blouses are like shirts but different in ways that are a bit tricky to describe because of the endless number of variations. Most blouses tend to be made of lighter, more "flowy" materials that drape loosely across the body, though some can be fairly close-fitting. They can have a collar or no collar, and any type of neckline. They can have long or short sleeves or may be sleeveless; puffy sleeves are common but not required. They may be pullovers, have button closures, or may be designed to be tied in front. They may very feminine and adorned with lace or frills, but they can also be of simple design, like the blouses worn with school or work uniforms. The wiki for blouse states that they are "designed to hang outside the clothes", but there's no rule that they can't be tucked in as well. Historically, it was usually the case that men wore shirts and women wore blouses, but there have been some very blouse-like shirts designed for men, and women can wear whatever they want nowadays. When in doubt, just use the shirt tag.
  • Dress shirts are as the wiki describes. If a shirt has a collar and buttons going down the front, this tag applies (if the shirt has two or three buttons at the top rather than all the way down, use the polo shirt tag instead). Dress shirts can be formal or casual, short-sleeved or long-sleeved, and can come in any print or color. Men and women alike wear dress shirts, and they're a typical component of suits and some uniforms.

If that isn't helpful enough, please feel free to reply with any posts you're unsure about. I've had precious little time to spare lately but there are others here who are knowledgeable about fashion and would be able to identify most of the types of outfits you're likely to encounter in real life.

Noted. Thanks for your details ^^

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user 460797

iridescent_slime said:

Would it be inappropriate to use the w arms tag for poses like in post #2314136, where the hands are together but the arms still make a W shape? Currently there's no tag for this pose other than the vague hands together, and as w arms lacks a wiki, I can see no restriction on it being used for this purpose.

Well, there's own_hands_together but I don't see a reason why this couldn't used^^.
Another hand gesture:
post #212458
What's the name of the gesture Kyonko is making?

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