Template talk:Clothing

Simplification & Expansion

The template is in need of improvement. A nice pre-existing list it could be based on is at http://danbooru.donmai.us/wiki/show?title=tag_group%3Aattire. I would suggest putting all of the historical and cultural garments into one category, then maybe subcategories of the type of garment they are. -Poi45iop (talk) 13:17, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Additional Categories

No hats in this template? Seems like an oversight. Should they be put in somewhere? -R. fiend (talk) 04:48, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

You can feel free to add it if you'd like. Tatterfly (talk) 14:23, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Undergarments? They are clothing- should I add a new section? Or are the current Lingerie and Men's undergarments enough? Loggie (talk) 13:37, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

What about swimwear? I know there's not much articles about it (e.g. tankini and bikini link the same), but should it be added? TheListUpdater (talk) 00:31, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Historical

Should we have a separate section "Historical" for farthingale, Brunswick (clothing), Banyan (clothing), Justacorps, etc., or put them under skirt, dress, coat...? - PKM (talk) 03:10, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

I am going to add Historical and National dress. - PKM (talk) 17:32, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Vietnamese Yếm

Due to it's origin in China and it's all exact same style clothing and it's worn by Chinese as well as other countries too. So this is not consider a national customs nor does Vietnamese Government consider it. Although it's name between Chinese and Vietnamese are different i failed to see how this is particular a national custom when it's origin is from other places.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lennlin (talk • contribs) 05:28, 19 December 2008 (UTC) 

Clothing materials

So, is this section supposed to be a list of what clothing is made out of? Because we have the whole fiber template devoted to different types of fiber. Is it supposed to have things like fabric, leather, and furs? Things that aren't a fiber but that one could cut into pieces that then are assembled into clothing? What is this section (and the clothing materials article) attempting to do? Loggie (talk) 22:48, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Unsustainable template

This template is already an unwieldy laundry list (literally and figuratively), and is only going to get bigger. I don't see it providing a benefit large enough to justify it being downloaded to every user that pulls up any clothing page, and so I would support its deletion. —Mrand ^{Talk • C} 13:48, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

I strongly disagree, I think that this is a very useful template on a highly notable and well-defined topic. I also feel that the current size is acceptable - there are many far larger WP templates - but do feel that care should now be exercised with any further additions. I would have thought that the template now contains essentially everything that it should. I am certainly not in favour of the addition of any obscure regional/local/tribal items of clothing. Rangoon11 (talk) 14:08, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Moving to collapsible groups is also a possible option for reducing bulk.Rangoon11 (talk) 14:10, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Ignoring that almost no-one is going to even going to click to un-collapse the template, I don't know how you avoid the "obscure regional/local/tribal items of clothing"... if there is no written guidelines, where do you draw the arbitrary line? Why would someone agree with your line and not their line? There are hundreds of tribal/folk costumes that could be legitimately listed. —Mrand ^{Talk • C} 23:42, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

We have templates for topics as vast as World War II. As with all these things editors can discuss and reach consensus about what should and should not be included. Re collapsible groups it is possible to set these up so that the relevant part of the template opens up when the template is viewed.Rangoon11 (talk) 11:19, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

This is utterly ridiculous! No one, after seeing how massive and unwieldy this template is, would bother to actually try to find things on it! You just hide it, and never look at it, ever again.--ZarlanTheGreen (talk) 14:51, 23 January 2012 (UTC)