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Clothing in ancient Egypt
Clothing in ancient Egypt: linen garments from flax, kilts for men and sheath dresses for women, draped rather than tailored, marked by social status; includes the Tarkhan Dress and beadnet dresses.
Clothing in ancient Greece
Clothing in ancient Greece: draped rectangular wool or linen garments, chiefly chiton, peplos, and himation, pinned and belted, made at home by women; known mainly from vase paintings and sculpture since few textiles survive.
Clothing in ancient Rome
Clothing in ancient Rome: the wool toga of the citizen (togatus), the matron's stola and palla, tunics with status stripes, and cloaks like the paenula and birrus; wool and linen textiles, Diocletian's 301 CE price edict, and the late-antique shift from toga to cloak.
Clothing in Ethiopia
Clothing in Ethiopia: handwoven cotton traditional dress such as the habesha kemis, netela, shama, and gabi, regional ethnic styles, religious and festival dress, and the modern apparel industry.
Clothing in India
Clothing in India spans draped garments like the sari and dhoti, stitched salwar kameez, and regional dress such as the phiran and mekhala chador, rooted in a 6,000-year textile history and khadi nationalism.
Clothing in Sudan
Clothing in Sudan: the women's wrapped tob (tobe) and men's white jallabiyya as national dress, plus markoob shoes, tobe naming and trade, Meroitic textile heritage, and 20th-century fashion history.
Clothing in the ancient world
Clothing in the ancient world: dress in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome, from Mesopotamian loincloths and Egyptian linen to Greek chitons, Roman-period Egyptian tunics, murex purple dye, and textile preservation conditions.
Clothing industry
The clothing industry produces, distributes, and sells garments and textile goods across a global value chain from fiber to retail. It employs over 90 million people, mostly women; Asia made 70.6% of world sector exports in 2022; global garment trade nears $550 billion; recycled fibres held only 7.6% market share in 2024.
Clothing laws by country
Clothing laws by country: national rules on dress, covering face-covering bans (France's 2010 law), mandatory attire (Iran, Afghanistan), decency and workplace dress codes, and human rights limits on regulating what people wear.
Clothing material
Clothing material (服装材料): the fabrics and auxiliary components of garments, from natural fibers like cotton, silk, and wool to chemical fibers like polyester, plus linings, threads, and fasteners, with measured comfort properties and sustainability data.
Clothing sizes
Clothing sizes are labels indicating the body measurements a ready-to-wear garment should fit. Key systems include ISO 8559, EN 13402, and ASTM tables; no binding worldwide standard exists, and vanity sizing has shifted label meanings over time.
Club Kids
Club Kids were a flamboyant late-1980s and early-1990s New York nightclub youth scene named by New York Magazine in 1988, led by promoter Michael Alig and James St. James at Peter Gatien's Limelight, Tunnel, Palladium, and Club USA, ending with Alig's 1997 manslaughter conviction for Angel Melendez's murder.
Coach New York
Coach New York is an American leather goods and fashion house founded in New York City in 1941, known for glove-tanned leather, the Horse and Carriage logo, accessible luxury positioning, and ownership by Tapestry, Inc.
Coast Salish weaving
Coast Salish weaving is the textile tradition of the Coast Salish peoples of Washington and British Columbia, producing wool blankets used as wealth and regalia.
Cocktail dress
A cocktail dress is a woman's semi-formal dress for early-evening occasions like the cocktail party, more formal than a day dress but shorter than a gown.
Coco Chanel
Coco Chanel (Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, 1883-1971), French founder of the House of Chanel; pioneered jersey sportswear, the little black dress, the Chanel suit, and perfume No. 5 (1921), and reopened her rue Cambon couture house after World War II.
Coco Rocha
Coco Rocha (Mikhaila Rocha, born 1988) is a Canadian supermodel, the 'Queen of Pose', discovered at an Irish dance competition; known for the 2007 Gaultier 'Coco moment', Study of Pose, and New York underage-model legislation.
Codpiece
Codpiece: a pouch or padded projection covering the groin, worn with men's hose in 15th- and 16th-century Europe; from the slang 'cod' (scrotum); peaked around 1540, declined by 1600 with the peascod doublet; also made in steel for armor.
Coin collecting
Coin collecting, part of numismatics (from Greek nomisma), is the hobby of gathering coins, tokens, and medals. Spans Augustus and Petrarch to the Sheldon 1-70 scale, PCGS/NGC grading, and today's auction market.
Coin grading
Coin grading: assessing a coin's condition on the 1-70 Sheldon scale, proposed by William Sheldon in 1948 and used by third-party services PCGS (1986), NGC (1987), ANACS, ICG, and CACG.
Coins of the Canadian dollar
Coins of the Canadian dollar: seven circulation denominations (1 cent to $2 toonie) minted by the Royal Canadian Mint in Winnipeg; first Canadian coins 1858; Voyageur dollar 1935; penny withdrawn 2013.
Coins of the Swiss franc
Coins of the Swiss franc: Switzerland's circulation coins in 5, 10, 20, 50 centimes and 1, 2, 5 francs, minted by Swissmint since the 1850 coinage reform, cupronickel since 1968.
Colcha embroidery
Colcha embroidery is a Hispanic folk embroidery of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado using a self-couching colcha stitch on sabanilla wool or cotton, with 1700s examples and twentieth-century revivals.
Cole Haan
Cole Haan: American footwear and accessories brand founded in Chicago in 1928 by Trafton Cole and Edward Haan; Nike subsidiary 1988-2013, now owned by Apax Partners, known for the Grand hybrid dress-sneaker lines.
Collar (clothing)
Collar (clothing): the band of fabric attached around a garment's neckline, also called a band, mandarin, or shirt collar. Covers anatomy (stand, roll line, fall), flat/stand/roll/shawl types, construction, and history.
Collecting
Collecting: selecting, gathering, and keeping objects as hobby, investment, or museum foundation. From 16th-century cabinets of curiosities (Naturalia, Artificialia, Scientifica, Exotica) to the British Museum (1753) and today's figurine and collectibles markets.
Colleen Atwood
Colleen Atwood (born 1948), American costume designer; four-time Oscar winner (Chicago, Memoirs of a Geisha, Alice in Wonderland, Fantastic Beasts) from 12 nominations; Tim Burton collaborator and Emmy winner for Netflix's Wednesday.
Collyer brothers
Homer and Langley Collyer, the Collyer brothers, were reclusive Harlem hoarders found dead in 1947 in their booby-trapped 2078 Fifth Avenue brownstone amid over 100 tons of debris; their case named Collyer brothers syndrome and inspired Doctorow's Homer & Langley.
Color in Chinese culture
Color in Chinese culture, or the traditional five-color system (五色), is a symbolic framework pairing blue-green, red, yellow, white, and black with the five phases, directions, seasons, ranks, and rituals, distinctive from all other national color systems.
Columbia Sportswear
Columbia Sportswear Company (COLM), founded 1938 in Portland, Oregon as Columbia Hat Company, is a family-controlled outdoor apparel maker whose brands include Columbia, Mountain Hardwear, SOREL, and prAna, known for Omni-Heat and Omni-Tech technologies.