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About Dongtan Lady

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Where to start with this story?
Dongtan is the name of a city in South Korea, and it's one of those cities that has recently seen an influx of young couples due to the New Town development.
And what characterizes these couples is that although they are mature compared to their 20-something counterparts, their fashion code is similar, meaning that the married women with mature bodies wear bold fashions that younger women would wear. Example_nsfw.

The figure-flattering long dresses we see in dongtan lady (k pring) are a prime example of this; the outfit was not originally designed by the k pring, but rather an adaptation of an outfit called the Dongtan Style that was popular on Korean community sites.

The issue I'd like to raise today is that we're treating this outfit, or simply characters wearing long dresses that reveal cleavage, or other similar outfits, as cosplay for k pring's OC. It's weird enough to create a new tag for simply long, neutral-colored dresses that reveal cleavage, but it's even weirder to treat it as cosplay for one character as we're doing now.

Updated

I think it doesn't makes sense to have it as a character attributed to k pring since this apparently is just not true. I do think a tag would be appropriate, however, I don't know whether it should be treated as meme attire or just simply a clothing style. If it's based on a real-world phenomenon, then calling it meme attire feels incorrect too.

BUR #20980 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

create implication dongtan_dress -> meme_attire
mass update dongtan_lady_(k_pring) -dongtan_lady_(k_pring)_(cosplay) -> dongtan_dress
mass update dongtan_lady_(k_pring)_(cosplay) -> dongtan_dress -dongtan_lady_(k_pring) -dongtan_lady_(k_pring)_(cosplay) -cosplay
create alias dongtan_lady_(k_pring)_(cosplay) -> dongtan_dress

That's why I created this BUR.
This costume is not unique to this character, nor is she the first character to wear it, just someone was the first to publicize it on Danbooru.

There were several opinions on naming the tag, but I settled on dongtan dress, which had the most consensus, and I added the BUR to imply meme_attire, since the popularity of this costume started with a fashion meme called 동탄미시룩.
Of course, it's only a meme_attire, so let's not go to Dongtan to find people actually wearing that outfit.

Below are the tags that were considered as candidates.

  • dongtan_missy_look (Literally)
  • dongtan_lady_costume
  • dongtan_lady_(meme)

If anyone has any suggestions for better tag name, please let me know.
I'll work on the wiki after the tag names are finalized.

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