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Chemise
Chemise: loose straight-cut undergarment from Old French/Late Latin camisia; historic body linen for men and women, Marie Antoinette's 1783 chemise dress, Victorian underwear layer, now silk sleepwear or lingerie-as-outerwear.
Chendamangalam handloom weavers
Chendamangalam handloom weavers of Ernakulam district, Kerala, a Devanga Chettiar community settled under the Paliam chief ministers, weave GI-tagged kasavu set mundu, dhotis, and sarees with the puliyilakara border on fully manual looms.
Chenille fabric
Chenille fabric is a soft, fuzzy cloth made from chenille yarn, named from the French word for caterpillar; it was created in France in the 1780s.
Cheongsam
The cheongsam, known in Chinese as the qipao (旗袍) or Mandarin gown, is a fitted one-piece dress for women that developed in China in the 1920s from Manchu robes.
Chewbacca Mask Lady
Chewbacca Mask Lady, or Chewbacca Mom, is the nickname of Texas mother Candace Payne, whose May 2016 laughing Chewbacca-mask video became the most viewed Facebook Live video then.
Chhau masks
Chhau masks (Bengali: ছৌ মুখোশ) are the large ornate masks worn in Purulia and Seraikella Chhau dance of eastern India, made chiefly by Sutradhar artisans of Charida village, West Bengal.
Chia Pet
Chia Pet, a Joseph Enterprises terracotta novelty planter coated with Salvia hispanica seeds that sprout as fur; relaunched 1982 by Joseph Pedott with the Ch-ch-ch-chia jingle.
Chiara Ferragni
Chiara Ferragni (born 1987, Cremona) is an Italian fashion influencer and entrepreneur who founded The Blonde Salad blog in 2009 and the Chiara Ferragni Brand; subject of a Harvard case study, fined over the Balocco pandoro charity campaign in 2023 and cleared of aggravated fraud in 2026.
Chief's blanket
A chief's blanket is a finely woven wearing blanket made by Diné (Navajo) weavers of the Southwestern United States, woven wider than long and worn wrapped around the shoulders.
Chiffon (fabric)
Chiffon (fabric): a sheer, lightweight plain-weave cloth woven from fine, highly twisted alternating S- and Z-twist yarns, 30-60 g/m2, originally French silk, now mostly polyester, used for gowns, scarves, and dupattas.
Chikankari
Chikankari (चिकनकारी) is a delicate hand embroidery from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, begun as white-on-white work on muslin and now worked in many colors on chiffon, muslin, and silk.
Chilkat blanket
The Chilkat blanket (Tlingit naaxein, "fringe about the body") is a ceremonial textile woven by hand from mountain goat wool and cedar bark by Pacific Northwest Coast peoples.
Chilkat weaving
Chilkat weaving is a finger-twined textile art of the northern Northwest Coast, in which Tlingit and Haida weavers make ceremonial robes from mountain goat wool and cedar bark.
Chimú blackware pottery
Chimú blackware pottery is the dark, polished, mold-made ware of the Chimú culture of northern Peru, produced from about 900 until the Inca conquest around 1470.
Chinese ceramics
Chinese ceramics: pottery, stoneware, and porcelain made in China (陶瓷) from Neolithic times, including the world's earliest pottery at Xianrendong (~20,000 years), Eastern Han celadon, Song's Five Great Kilns, Tang blue-and-white, and the UNESCO-listed Jingdezhen porcelain industry sites.
Chinese clothing
Chinese clothing (中国服饰; Hanfu, qipao) is China's dress tradition across five millennia: two basic forms, class and ritual symbolism, Qing-era change, and modern guofeng revival.
Chinese culture
Chinese culture (中华文化, Huaxia culture) is the material and spiritual culture of the Chinese nation over 5,000+ years: philosophy of harmony, eight virtues, three cultural layers, calligraphy and painting, heritage protection, and modern digital exports.
Chinese embroidery
Chinese embroidery (中国刺绣), a needle-and-thread craft practiced for over 2,000 years, with four famous schools (Su, Xiang, Yue, Shu), ethnic minority traditions, and modern commercial and digital revival.
Chinese knotting (中国结)
Chinese knotting (中国结), traditionally also called 络子 or 绦子, is the Chinese craft of tying one cord into symmetrical decorative knots. Named around 1980 by Chen Xiasheng with Hansheng magazine, it originated in record-keeping knots, flourished in Tang-Song, and peaked in Ming-Qing.
Chinese opera costume
Chinese opera costume, known as xingtou or xifu, is the standardized stage wardrobe of Chinese opera, above all Peking opera, tracing to the mid-14th century.
Chintz
Chintz (Hindi chint, "speckled") is an Indian painted or printed floral cotton calico, 1600–1800, exported to Europe by the East India companies, banned in Britain and France, then imitated as glazed printed cotton.
Chip on shoulder
Chip on your shoulder is an English idiom for a belligerent attitude or harbored grievance, from an American custom of balancing a wood chip as a fight dare.
Chiprovtsi carpet
The Chiprovtsi carpet (Чипровски килим), also called Chiprovtsi kilim, is a handwoven, geometric, double-sided Bulgarian rug made in Chiprovtsi, northwestern Bulgaria, inscribed on UNESCO's intangible heritage list in 2014.
Chirimen
Chirimen (縮緬) is a Japanese silk crepe fabric with a fine puckered texture, used for women's kimono since the mid-Edo period and woven chiefly in Tango.
Chloé
Chloé (Maison Chloé) is a French luxury fashion house founded in Paris in 1952 by Gaby Aghion and Jacques Lenoir, a Richemont-owned pioneer of luxury ready-to-wear known for bohemian-chic femininity, the Paddington bag, B Corp certification, and creative director Chemena Kamali since 2023.
Chokwe masks
Chokwe masks are carved wooden masks, notably the female pwo and mwana pwo types, danced by men of the Chokwe peoples of Angola, DR Congo, and Zambia.
Chonmage (丁髷)
Chonmage (丁髷, ちょんまげ) is the Edo-period Japanese men's topknot with a shaved pate (sakayaki), characteristic of samurai. It ended after the 1871 sanpatsu dattōrei and survives in professional sumo wrestling.
Chrissy Teigen
Chrissy Teigen (Christine Diane Teigen), American model, TV personality, and cookbook author born 1985 in Delta, Utah; SI Swimsuit Rookie of the Year 2010, 2014 and 2024 cover model, wife of John Legend, author of Cravings.
Christian Audigier
Christian Audigier (1958–2015), French fashion designer and entrepreneur behind Von Dutch's revival and the Ed Hardy tattoo-streetwear brand, sold Ed Hardy to Iconix for $62 million in 2011.
Christian Cowan
Christian Cowan (born 1994) is a British fashion designer, born in Spain and raised in England, founder of his New York-based womenswear label (2017), a 2018 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalist known for celebrity party wear and downtown NYFW shows.