Dresses have skirts. Should dresses be tagged as skirts? Could this be a strong enough connection to warrant an implication? Additionally, should skirt be used both to mean "clothes with skirts" and separate skirts, or should there be separate tags?

Although "skirt" can refer to the bottom part of a dress, I think we should reserve the tag itself for the garment that hangs from the waist downwards. When we think of "skirt", we traditionally think of the latter, not dresses. Thus, when we search for skirt, we're going to expect the waist-down garment, not dresses. Implying dress to skirt would therefore muddy the waters without providing much benefit.

I'm inclined to agree that an implication is unwarranted. I do think there's value in a separate tag for "things with skirts" if the general consensus is that skirt should exclusively be skirts as a garment.

So, essentially, is it ok to tag both dress and skirt for the same piece of clothing?

Is there also a concept such as two-part dress? I assume, that would be either a jacket and a skirt or a top and a skirt.

This type of children's dress appears skirtish for me:
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What would happen to dress_lift (on the side of skirt_lift)?

urielfrys said:
What would happen to dress_lift (on the side of skirt_lift)?

This is also part of why I made this thread; the tags surrounding skirts/dresses are a bit messy. Tags like dress_lift are clothing-specific where upskirt is general even though skirt_lift and dress_lift both essentially refer to the same thing. There's no vest_lift, tanktop_lift, blouse_lift, etc. tags for example, they're all contained within shirt_lift. dress_lift itself should probably be aliased to skirt_lift either way; I don't see the value in having both tags.

Having thought about it further I feel like there should be a tag both for skirts as they are now and "skirted clothing" which is just "clothing with skirts", so it would include skirts alongside any variations of skirts like miniskirts, kilts, sarongs, etc., and also clothing that includes a skirt, like dresses.

urielfrys said:
Is there also a concept such as two-part dress? I assume, that would be either a jacket and a skirt or a top and a skirt.

It would fall under appropriate_top and skirt rather than dress.

This type of children's dress appears skirtish for me:
post #16934

It's still a dress. The skirts might be short, but it's still all one piece including a top portion.

What would happen to dress_lift (on the side of skirt_lift)?

korbok said:
Tags like dress_lift are clothing-specific where upskirt is general even though skirt_lift and dress_lift both essentially refer to the same thing. ... dress_lift itself should probably be aliased to skirt_lift either way; I don't see the value in having both tags.

In this case, I'd support an alias. Yes, the clothing tag might be dress, it's still the skirts of the dress that is being lifted. Here, skirt wouldn't be referring to the article of clothing itself but the section of clothing.

Having thought about it further I feel like there should be a tag both for skirts as they are now and "skirted clothing" which is just "clothing with skirts", so it would include skirts alongside any variations of skirts like miniskirts, kilts, sarongs, etc., and also clothing that includes a skirt, like dresses.

All the variations of skirts should implicate skirt, thus you'd only need to search for skirt + dress for skirted clothing.