Changing lowleg to more common and accurate term

BUR #49983 has been rejected.

create alias lowleg -> low-rise
create alias lowleg_bikini -> low-rise_bikini
create alias lowleg_panties -> low-rise_panties
create alias lowleg_pants -> low-rise_pants
create alias lowleg_pantyhose -> low-rise_pantyhose
create alias lowleg_shorts -> low-rise_shorts
create alias lowleg_skirt -> low-rise_skirt

I was trying to find the tag for this style and came up short several times. 'lowleg' as far as I can tell has not ever really been a term used and worse-it's inaccurate. What in the world does a bottom garment riding on your hips rather than waist have to do with legs? Tellingly you even use low-cut and low-set to describe the clothing in question because that at least makes sense. Even the Wikipedia article you link for it is 'low-rise' and doesn't mention 'lowleg' as an alias.

Related: topic #18430

For me lowleg easily matches with highleg and therefore a preferred term.
However, Im not native english speaker and have no idea which one is more popular.

I can suggest to swap this BUR. To alias other way around

BUR #49985 has been approved by @evazion.

create alias low-rise -> lowleg
create alias low-rise_bikini -> lowleg_bikini
create alias low-rise_panties -> lowleg_panties
create alias low-rise_pants -> lowleg_pants
create alias low-rise_pantyhose -> lowleg_pantyhose
create alias low-rise_shorts -> lowleg_shorts
create alias low-rise_skirt -> lowleg_skirt

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pantsukiller said:

For me lowleg easily matches with highleg and therefore a preferred term.
However, Im not native english speaker and have no idea which one is more popular.

The alias would leave lowleg aliased, so it would still be searchable.
As mentioned in the previous thread, only Danbooru uses lowleg, and the more common term is low-rise.

If the issue truly is highleg, then those tags could be changed to high-rise accordingly.

Hey, Danbooru is powerful enough to make you accept the new norm! All heil Danbooru

pantsukiller said:

For me lowleg easily matches with highleg and therefore a preferred term.
However, Im not native english speaker and have no idea which one is more popular.

I can suggest to swap this BUR. To alias other way around

It's not just 'what term is more popular', it's that lowleg doesn't seem to exist outside of this website. It'd be like calling a turtleneck a 'high-neck_shirt' to match with a 'off-shoulder_shirt' it just doesn't make sense to me when there is a commonly used term.

Login_to_view said:

The alias would leave lowleg aliased, so it would still be searchable.
As mentioned in the previous thread, only Danbooru uses lowleg, and the more common term is low-rise.

If the issue truly is highleg, then those tags could be changed to high-rise accordingly.

High-rise is a term for something else entirely is an issue-mainly being what is currently under 'high-waist_skirt' or 'underbust' in general.

Doesn't change the fact what is currently 'lowleg' and 'highleg' have nothing to do with each other and shouldn't be treated as counterparts, because someone didn't know the real term for it so riffed on something else.

Login_to_view said:

The alias would leave lowleg aliased, so it would still be searchable.
As mentioned in the previous thread, only Danbooru uses lowleg, and the more common term is low-rise.

If the issue truly is highleg, then those tags could be changed to high-rise accordingly.

it comes from japan/pixiv ローレグ

https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B0

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B0

since both burs are up for voting i voted lowleg because personally lowleg is easier to remember imo. "low rise" doesn't even make sense. what is it rising?

trapster77 said:

it comes from japan/pixiv ローレグ

https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B0

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B0

since both burs are up for voting i voted lowleg because personally lowleg is easier to remember imo. "low rise" doesn't even make sense. what is it rising?

Low rise is because it is low on your hips rather than on your waist. It rises 'low' on your body.

Edit: I even looked it up on uniqlo jp and found ローライズ www.uniqlo.com/jp/ja/products/E472615-000/00?colorDisplayCode=03 and no such for term for ローレグ

There's a graphic on the JP lowleg wikipedia that shows what "lowleg" should mean. Third image is labelled lowleg, fourth is lowrise.

But it does say that the term, though a misnomer, has become used to refer to unfeasible variations of lowrise panties in manga art.

Asking for consistency with highleg doesn't make sense because they're not referring to the same thing. Highleg is about the leg cut--the cut is high on the body so more "leg" is exposed below the fabric (post #5256180). While the lowleg tag wants to point out that the rise is low--how high on the body the top of the fabric is relative to the groin (post #47573).

They only appear to be related when talking about panties or clothing with thin sides. Actual lowleg panties can still be highrise if the fabric extends high enough.

this has always bothered me. lowleg is a bizarre term, especially when low-rise is exactly what the term is trying to describe. Also for the record, many posts that would clearly fit the criteria for lowleg aren't tagged with it, and perhaps if the term were more accurate it would help? Idk I don't know how posts are tagged. Like if these works don't warrant the "lowleg" tag, then nothing on this website should have it.
post #8900138
post #9960129
post #9034555
post #8170060

Lfbaber said:
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You can edit posts yourself if you think tags are missing. On every post, there's an "options" menu to the side. One of the options is "Edit"; click on that and you can add or remove tags.

The opposite of lowleg isn't highleg, it's high-rise, or what we call high-waist_*. So if we want consistency we should either go with low-waist and high-waist, or low-rise and high-rise.

Placeholder1996 said:

You can edit posts yourself if you think tags are missing. On every post, there's an "options" menu to the side. One of the options is "Edit"; click on that and you can add or remove tags.

all the more reason to change it. since lowleg is not a term that exists, its no wonder people aren't tagging art with it when nothing comes up for low rise

Do we want to go with low-rise and rename all the high-waist_* tags to high-rise (e.g. high-rise skirt, high-rise pants, etc), or do we want to stick with high-waist and rename all the lowleg tags to low-waist (e.g. low-waist panties, low-waist bikini, low-waist pants, etc)?

The bulk update request #49985 (forum #395858) has been approved by @evazion.

i'm liking the sound of low/high-waist better myself. it seems more intuitive than both low/highleg and low/high-rise.

This bulk update request is pending automatic rejection in 5 days.

The bulk update request #49983 (forum #395852) has been rejected by @nonamethanks.