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Parka
Parka: a hooded Arctic outer garment, also called atigi (western Siberian-Russian origin) or anorak, invented by Eskimo peoples, traditionally of hollow-haired caribou fur, later a global military and fashion coat.
Pollera
Pollera: Spanish American woman's skirt and traditional costume; Panama's embroidered national two-piece dress, Bolivia and Peru's layered cholita skirt, Ecuador's chola cuencana pleated skirt; Spanish colonial origin, 16th century onward.
Poncho
Poncho: rectangular cloth garment with a central head opening, native to the Americas; evolved from Andean pre-Columbian tunics, popularized by the Mapuche, spread through colonial South America, with the Paraguayan Poncho Para'í on UNESCO's urgent safeguarding list.
Punjabi clothing
Punjabi clothing (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਪਹਿਰਾਵਾ), traditional dress of the Punjab: salwar kameez and Patiala salwar, kurta with tehmat and dastar, phulkari and bagh embroidery, and the jutti.
Punk fashion
Punk fashion: the mid-1970s anti-fashion dress style of the punk subculture, centered on Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren's SEX/Seditionaries shop at 430 King's Road, defined by ripped clothes, safety pins, bondage trousers, dyed hair, and DIY customization.
Queue (hairstyle)
Queue (辮子, bianzi): Manchu male hairstyle with shaved forehead and a long back braid, imposed on Han Chinese men by Qing law in 1645 and worn for over 260 years until the 1911 revolution.
Revival movements in traditional dress of the Americas and Africa
Revival movements in traditional dress of the Americas and Africa are organized efforts to restore garments pushed aside by colonization, using museums, tribal programs, and festivals.
Royal christening gown
Royal christening gown: the 1841 Honiton lace and Spitalfields silk Royal Christening Robe commissioned by Queen Victoria, worn by 62 royal babies, retired in 2004 and replaced by an exact replica still in use.
Ryusou
Ryusou (琉装), or Uchinā-sugai, is Okinawa's traditional attire from the Ryukyu Kingdom (1429–1879): wider ventilated sleeves, a front-tied sash instead of an obi, bingata dyeing, and bashofu textiles.
Sámi traditional dress
Sámi traditional dress, centered on the gákti (also gáppte, gapta, kofte, kolt), is the regional clothing of the Sámi people of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, made from reindeer leather and wool, identifying wearer's region and family, and protected as Sámi cultural heritage.
Sardinian traditional dress
Sardinian traditional dress is the folk costume of Sardinia, Italy, with as many as 400 village-specific outfits of wool, silk, and silver jewelry, now worn at festivals.
Sari
Sari (saree): unstitched draped women's garment of South Asia, 4–9 m long with field, borders, and pallu; over 80 regional drapes including Nivi, Bengali, Gujarati; India's sari market $12 bn in 2024.
Sarong
Sarong (Malay sarung, "sheath"): a tubular wrapped lower-body garment of Southeast Asia, also called sampot, longyi, or phaa sinh; worn by men and women, decorated with batik and ikat, and repeatedly revived in Western fashion from Dorothy Lamour to Dries Van Noten.
Saudi national dress
Saudi national dress: the thobe-based formal attire for men and the regionally varied women's garments of Saudi Arabia's thirteen provinces, including the bisht (mishlah), ghutra, agal, abaya, and named regional dresses such as the Najdi Aseeri and Hejazi al-Masdah.
Scene (subculture)
Scene (subculture): a youth subculture emerging in the early 2000s United States from emo, also called scenesters or trendies, defined by neon skinny jeans, side-swooped dyed hair, MySpace scene queens, and a TikTok revival around 2020.
Sgian dubh
Sgian dubh (sgian-dhubh), Scottish Gaelic for "black knife": a small single-edged Highland dress knife worn sheathed in the kilt hose. Derived from the concealed sgian achlais, now ceremonial, exempt under UK national costume rules, and endangered as a craft.
Shaka sign
The shaka sign, also called hang loose, is Hawaii's thumb-and-pinky gesture of greeting, thanks, and aloha. Attributed to Hamana Kalili, it became Hawaii's official state gesture in 2024, the first in the U.S.
Shalwar kameez
Shalwar kameez (salwar kameez), the national dress of Pakistan: loose drawstring trousers plus a long tunic, often with a dupatta, worn by men and women across South Asia with Persian and Mughal roots and named variants like Patiala and Peshawari.
Shweshwe
Shweshwe, also called isishweshwe or seshoeshoe, is a discharge-printed cotton cloth, originally indigo with white patterns, worn across southern Africa and manufactured by Da Gama Textiles in the Eastern Cape.
Spanish influence on Filipino culture
Spanish influence on Filipino culture: the religious, linguistic, culinary, and artistic legacy of Spanish colonial rule (1565–1898), including Catholicism, Chabacano, baro't saya, fiestas, and galleon-borne Mexican influences.
Sporran
Sporran (Gaelic sporan, purse): pouch worn in front of the kilt in Scottish Highland dress, replacing the kilt's absent pockets. Types are day (leather), semi-dress, and dress (fur, metal cantle); horsehair forms are military.
Sukeban (スケバン)
Sukeban (スケバン, also 助番, onna-banchō) means Japanese female delinquent and the 1970s all-female girl gangs known for long modified sailor uniforms, concealed weapons, and the Sukeban Deka series.
Tapa cloth
Tapa cloth, also called barkcloth, siapo, ngatu, masi, or kapa, is a Pacific non-woven textile made by beating paper mulberry inner bark; used for clothing, ceremony, and gifts, with production continuing in Tonga, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea.
Thawb (ثَوْب)
Thawb (ثوب), also dishdasha or kandura, is the ankle-length robe worn by Arab men, typically white and single-piece, and an embroidered women's dress in Palestine, Sinai, and the Gulf; official dress in Gulf states with regional cut variations.
Tracht
Tracht (Trachten) is the traditional regional festive dress of rural populations in German-speaking Alpine Europe, including dirndl and lederhosen; revived in the 19th century via Bavarian royal patronage and Trachtenvereine, it signals regional identity today.
Traditional dress of Portugal
The traditional dress of Portugal is festive rural folk costume, best known through the traje à vianesa of Viana do Castelo, a gold-adorned women's dress that became a national emblem.
Traditional dress of Siberian and circumpolar Asian peoples
Traditional dress of Siberian and circumpolar Asian peoples is fur- and skin-based clothing of peoples such as the Nenets, Evenki, Chukchi, and Sakha, among the first makers of tailored garments.
Traditional dress of Spain
Traditional dress of Spain is regional folk dress in three zones, north, central, and Andalusian-Mediterranean, codified nationally at a 1925 Madrid exhibition and still worn at festivals.
Traditional dress of the Americas, Arctic and Africa: comparative overview
Traditional dress of the Americas, Arctic, and Africa consists of locally made clothing systems in which materials, cut, and decoration respond to climate, trade, and social meaning.
Traditional dress of the Netherlands
Traditional dress of the Netherlands (klederdracht, streekdracht): region-bound folk clothing, never one national costume, with per-town variants signaling religion, wealth and mourning; only Arnemuiden, Marken, Staphorst-Rouveen and Bunschoten-Spakenburg still wear it daily, while Volendam dress dominates the tourist image.