EB said:
I can hardly find anything that's not thighhighs with lace-trimmed_legwear, but separate lace-trimmed_kneehighs and lace-trimmed_socks tags exist there. Lace-trimmed thighhighs is such a high count tag that rolling them all into "legwear" would add an irritating amount of false positives to a search for non-thighhigh variants.
I've often thought about why we don't just convert everything over to the *_legwear format.
The only issue with the current scheme is that if it wasn't for the autocomplete showing lace-trimmed thighhighs as one of the top results under lace-trimmed_*, I'd have no way of knowing whether to use *_thighhighs or *_legwear, especially since almost every other qualifier for legwear uses the *_legwear format.
Using the consistent *_legwear format for all qualifiers would therefore make tagging easier at the cost of having false positives. The post count of lace-trimmed socks and kneehighs is about 15 each and the error rate is about 50% for both (if everything gets converted over to *_legwear). Since the overall count is so low, I'd consider that a cost I could deal with.