Tag Alias: garters -> garter_belt

Aliasing garters -> garter_belt.

Reason: same thing as far as I can tell, and garter_belt has more posts and is more intuitive I think.

fuck fuck fuck no they aren't. I should have read the wiki entry.

The wiki makes the distinction pretty clear. However, I don't think average user knows about the garter_belt tag and uses garters instead.

Okay, so...the garter_belt is the belt itself, and the garters are the straps. Seems kind of silly to have a distinction. Shouldn't all garter_belt posts also have the garters tag? Or am I not getting it?

post #429748 is an example of garters. Note the elastics around the thighhighs. post #423002 has the straps but not the elastic making it garter_belt.

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okay this ignore this then.

Perhaps a reworking of the wiki and cleaning up the garters tag would stop further confusion.

Well, there are some under the garters tag that have no stockings/thighhighs, thus they aren't "to hold stockings up", and there are many under the garters tag that shouldn't be there, but rather under garter_belt. That, plus the huge overlap, caused my confusion.

Reese mentioned this discussion in forum #36169. Since I have been pretty confused by the related concepts, please let me revive this topic.

• Garter belt: a good tag, but should it really be used unless the belt part is visible? A clear example of a garter belt: post #614100.

• Garter straps (what is the correct term?): parts of a garter belt, usually fixed but sometimes detachable. Can just as well belong to (some types of) panties (see post #290333) or, more often, bustiers (see post #471009) or corsets (see post #312333).
• If you only see the lower end of a strap, you cannot really tell what piece of lingerie is at the top end!

• Leg garters:
• Sometimes with straps, see post #617269.
• Nowadays more often without them, see post #429748.
• Perhaps even more often used as mere decorations, see post #145423.

• Arm garters: see post #612981 for use with gloves and post #571280 for use with sleeves.
• These, too, can be used as nothing more than decoration, see post #321590.
• Due to their similar appearances, some taggers mix up arm garters with wrist cuffs, see post #508018.

Actually I've been wanting that we consider that if we can't actually see a garter_belt, but we see the straps it receive a garter_straps tag instead as well. As you pointed out, and I had seen long ago, there are articles of clothing that can also support garter straps beside the belts.

When I wrote the definition for wrist cuffs at the time I made the tag, I shouldn't have also tossed in the bands that go around the wrist that are frilled. I've been thinking that they should likely receive their own tag, and have been thinking something along the lines of "frilled_wristband." Of course if it'd make more sense for someone to call it a wrist garter or something I wouldn't have a problem. I believe there are some that are meant to go around the wrist to keep the open end of a glove tight against the wrist.

What would be the tag for something like post #622173? The straps are clearly visible, but there doesn't seem to be a belt or stand-alone leg garter for them to clip to.