@Bionicman76: Originally stirrup footwear used to imply shoes...

Bionicman76
2026-04-23T22:23:26-04:00

Originally stirrup footwear used to imply shoes that exposed the feet and heels while still covering the soles as a shoe is supposed to. This footwear design is commonly used in Naruto.

post #11047908
post #8763008 on Scaramouche (Genshin Impact).

A year ago a wiki was added to the tag and then it came to functionally mean stirrup legwear that stays below the knees. So now it is no longer being applied for those shoe designs as it originally was.

A heads up I sent a user about stirrup footwear usage before the wiki was created: Message

The wiki was created some time after I sent this clarification. It's creation never came to my attention until now.

This new tag definition causes an overlap with the already established stirrup legwear. Stirrup legwear already encompasses all lengths as long as the toes and heels are exposed and the sole of the foot can touch the ground.

- Examples of inconsistent usage
Both used when only legwear applies: post #10896523
Both used when only legwear applies: post #8986897
Both used when only legwear applies: post #8691882
Both used when only legwear applies: post #10368075 and its child post #8420795

I think it's noteworthy that Nahida (Genshin Impact) makes up 871 of the currently existing 1386 stirrup footwear posts.

I think the need for a distinction between different lengths of the exact same fashion/fetish legging design is superfluous at best.

And before elbow gloves are used as an example in the discussion, elbow gloves are visually removed enough from regular gloves to be noteworthy enough for their own tag (Gloves this long are uncommon and frankly unusual compared to regular pairs).

Additionally there used to be a tag for stirrup thighhighs, the very long variation, but that one is no longer in use.

To put it short, I think the wiki for stirrup footwear should be edited to have its original meaning and usage restored, or barring that aliasing stirrup footwear to stirrup legwear.