It generally depends on a sponsor of the festival if these children should be called chigo or not, so sometimes they are not called chigo even though they look like chigo, for example, yaotome (eight shrine maidens), young boys in the Annual Festival of Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine, and musicians in the Hanamaki Festival in Hanamaki City, while children can be called chigo in spite of wearing no makeup, for example, the children wearing yukata (informal summer kimono) without makeup in the Yukata Festival in Himeji City.
ただ、稚児と呼ぶかどうかは祭りの主催者によって一定しない場合が多く、鶴岡八幡宮例大祭の八乙女・童子や花巻市の花巻まつりの囃子方の様に、見た目が稚児であっても稚児と呼ばない場合がある一方で、姫路市のゆかた祭りの様に、素顔にゆかた（袴無し）の場合でも稚児と呼ばれる場合もある。