Donmai

Whether bike_shorts are shorts

Posted under Tags

I'm in support of removing the alias. I believe shorts and pants in general are tags for clothing in which it is implied you're supposed to wear underwear with. Given that is not the case with compression shorts (and even more so for the subtype called bike shorts), I don't think they should be considered the same thing.

Unbreakable said:

I use shorts related tags for them since they are similar enough to me, this was touched upon in topic #15287

Same. I also really don't want a separate set of tags just for bike shorts. Like I said in the topic you linked, a loose_shorts tag or something similar could always be created, that way the shorts tag could act as an umbrella tag.

BrokenEagle98 said:

Same. I also really don't want a separate set of tags just for bike shorts. Like I said in the topic you linked, a loose_shorts tag or something similar could always be created, that way the shorts tag could act as an umbrella tag.

I don't necessarily disagree... but loose shorts also seems quite contrived, doesn't it? Shouldn't shorts_under_skirt -bike_shorts work well enough? I don't think "loose shorts" is really a concept people think of since "loose shorts" are more or less the default. It seems odd to require an extra tag for the default case.

I also feel that "bike shorts" are legitimately used in different situations than regular shorts are in most cases. They aren't quite underwear, but they aren't typical outerwear either.

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