Clothing materials

Its important to distinguish a piece of clothing from it's material. In cases where you have a certain recognizable type of clothing it may be preferable to tag it as clothing:denim jacket or clothing:denim miniskirt while you might as well as just use the namespaceless tag denim for the image. Its up to the tagger to recognize where its better to tag only the material and where he needs to include the material together with the piece of clothing. (More discussion in the page Clothing attributes) Typically clothing materials are called fabrics, while some modern artificial materials may not fully fill the latter definition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fabrics

https://www.thespruce.com/fabric-glossary-clothes-you-wear-2145791

External sources are not all-exhausting. The wikipedia article for example doesn't list a fabric that's gaining popularity called rayon. Rayon is synthetic silk.

 

Exceptions to common material and attribute schema

 

This may even deserve an article of it's own depending on how many exceptions we describe. All of them boil down to inappropriate yet common colloquial speech. When the colloquialism is blatantly factually incorrect, use tags that better represent reality. Take the primary clothing example of khakis. Khaki is only a color. This is an undisputable fact and the original meaning of the word. The etymology is as follows: Khaki is a loanword from Urdu خاکی 'soil-colored', which in turn comes from Persian خاک [χɒːk] khâk 'soil' + ی- (adjectival ending); it came into English via the British Indian Army.^[6][7]

Khaki was the typical color of military uniforms made from coarse home-spun cotton. As awareness of the style spread into civilian consciousness it became standard that in western fashion that smart casual dress trousers for civilians or other cotton fabric with a khaki color would be called khakis, sometimes even inappropriately when the cotton hosen was of a different color. In PTR we aim to represent the media with the most truthful and accurate tags. khaki is the tag for the color. The only correct way to use clothing:khakis is for a khaki colored cotton military uniform or civilian clothes with an identical visage. Even this is not preferred because usually better synonyms exist.