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Fedora
Fedora: soft felt hat with creased, pinched crown and snap brim, named after Sardou's 1882 play Fédora; dominant men's hat from the 1880s to the 1960s, distinct from the trilby and homburg.
Felt
Felt: a nonwoven textile of matted, interlocked fibers, traditionally wool, made by wet felting or needle punching; the oldest known fabric (Turkish samples, 6500 BCE), used for yurts, hats, insulation, filtration, and acoustics.
Fendi
Fendi: Italian luxury fashion house founded in Rome in 1925 by Adele Casagrande and Edoardo Fendi as a fur and leather goods workshop; famous for the double-F logo, Baguette bag, 54-year Karl Lagerfeld collaboration, and LVMH majority ownership since 2001.
Fenn treasure
Fenn treasure: a bronze chest of gold, gems, and artifacts hidden by Santa Fe dealer Forrest Fenn, announced 2010 via a 24-line poem in The Thrill of the Chase; about 350,000 searched, five died, and Jack Stuef found it in Wyoming in June 2020; auctioned 2022 for ~$1.3 million.
Fetish fashion
Fetish fashion: dress style translating bondage and erotic codes (leather, latex, rubber, corsetry, straps, studs, chains) into clubwear and designer fashion; moved from 19th-century underground and gay leather scenes through punk, Westwood's Sex shop, Gaultier, Mugler and 1980s London clubs to the couture runway.
Fetish model
A fetish model poses in fetish clothing and accessories, presenting their body to reflect fetish aesthetics. This work is strongly sexual but does not require nudity.
Fez (hat)
Fez (tarboosh, fes): brimless red felt cap with tassel, named for Fez, Morocco. Mandated across the Ottoman Empire by Mahmud II in 1826 and 1829; banned in Turkey by the Hat Law of 1925; survives in North Africa and religious dress.
Fibula (brooch)
Fibula (brooch): ancient garment fastener, Greek perone, working like a safety pin with pin, body, and catch. Worn from the late Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages, made of bronze, silver, or gold, and classified by type series such as Blinkenberg's.
Fifty pence (British coin)
The fifty pence (50p) is a British coin introduced in October 1969 to replace the ten-shilling note. Known as the world's first seven-sided equilateral curve heptagon coin, it was resized in 1997 and has carried over 100 designs including Kew Gardens.
Figlinae
Figlinae (singular figlina) were Roman pottery and brick workshops producing bricks, tiles, dolia, and amphorae, known mainly from stamped products; distinct from the Esquiline district Figlinae and the road station Ad Figlinas near Genoa.
Fila
Fila (spelled FILA), sportswear brand founded 1911 in Biella, Italy, by the Fila brothers; tennis collection and F-Box logo from 1973; owned by South Korea's FILA Korea since 2007, renamed Misto Holdings in 2025; distinct from Italian stationery firm F.I.L.A. Group.
Filippo Sorcinelli
Filippo Sorcinelli (born 1975, Mondolfo) is an Italian artist, organist, and perfumer; founder of the LAVS atelier in Santarcangelo di Romagna, he has made vestments for popes Benedict XVI, Francis, and Leo XIV, and launched the UNUM fragrance line in 2014.
Filmfare Award for Best Costume Design
Filmfare Award for Best Costume Design, a technical Filmfare Award (Hindi cinema) given to costume designers; created after Rangeela (1995), first won by Manish Malhotra, with recent winners Veera Kapur Ee (2022) and the Sam Bahadur team (2024), plus a series equivalent at the Filmfare OTT Awards.
Fingerless gloves
Fingerless gloves are hand coverings that leave the fingers exposed while the palm and back stay covered, trading fingertip warmth for dexterity in uses from Victorian mitts to cycling.
Fishnet stockings
Fishnet stockings are hosiery with an open, diamond-shaped knit that leaves the skin visible, worn since the 1920s by showgirls, adopted by punk in the 1970s, and now a fashion staple.
Flat cap
The flat cap, also called the cloth cap or Ivy cap, is a soft rounded wool cap with a short stiff front brim, worn since the fourteenth century.
Flight jacket
Flight jacket, also called aviator or bomber jacket: military aircrew outerwear born with the 1917 U.S. Aviation Clothing Board, evolving from leather A-2, B-3 and G-1 to nylon MA-1 and flame-resistant CWU-45/P, later a civilian fashion staple.
Flip-flops
Flip-flops, also called thongs, jandals, or slippers, are flat Y-strap thong sandals known since ancient Egypt (ca. 1500 BC British Museum pair), mass-produced in rubber postwar from the Japanese zori, with Havaianas launched in 1962.
Folk art
Folk art: community-rooted art learned through family, apprenticeship, or local custom rather than academies; handmade, often utilitarian or ritual, traditional yet innovative; term popularized in 1920s America, exhibited at MoMA in 1932.
Folk costume
Folk costume (also ethnic or traditional costume, German Tracht) is traditional apparel expressing regional, national, or ethnic identity, worn daily or ceremonially; it declined under industrialization, was revived as national dress in the 19th century, and persists through museums, heritage listings, and diaspora use.
Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting
Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting is an American quilting TV series and magazine created by Marianne Fons and Liz Porter; the PBS series began in 1995 and the magazine became America's highest-circulated quilting magazine.
Foot binding (缠足)
Foot binding (缠足, chansu) was a Han Chinese practice of binding girls' feet from about ages 4 to 8 to create the "three-inch golden lotus," lasting from the Song dynasty to 1949, documented archaeologically from Lady Huang Sheng's tomb and ended through late Qing, Republican, and Communist campaigns.
Foot Locker
Foot Locker, Inc. is an American athletic footwear and apparel retailer founded in 1974 by Kinney Shoe Corp. under Woolworth, with about 2,400 stores in 20 countries; acquired by DICK'S Sporting Goods, closing September 8, 2025.
Fop
A fop is an old-fashioned term for a vain man obsessively concerned with dress and manners. From mid-15th-century 'fool', its dandy sense dates to the 1670s; the 18th-century stereotype, its stage role, and successor the dandy.
Forced orgasm
A forced orgasm is a consensual BDSM practice in which a restrained partner is brought to orgasm while another person controls the stimulation, often with a vibrator.
Ford Models
Ford Models, the New York modeling agency founded by Eileen and Jerry Ford in 1946-1947, pioneered model management and the first modeling contracts, represented supermodels from Dovima to Naomi Campbell, and now runs offices in eight cities.
Forever 21
Forever 21: American fast-fashion brand founded 1984 in Los Angeles by Do Won and Jin Sook Chang as Fashion 21; peaked above $4 billion revenue, filed Chapter 11 in 2019 and 2025, closed all US stores May 2025, brand now licensed by Authentic Brands Group.
Formal wear
Formal wear: clothing prescribed for ceremonies, courts, and evening events, descending from European court dress. Key forms include judicial robes, white tie, and black tie, codified from the 1635 Judges' Rules onward.
Fox-Wizel
Fox-Wizel Ltd. (פוקס-ויזל בע"מ), trading as Fox Group, is an Israeli fashion and sports retail group listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, operating Fox, Nike, Mango, and Foot Locker stores.
Francesco Risso
Francesco Risso (born 1982) is an Italian fashion designer, creative director of Marni 2016-2025 and of GU from 2026, known for gesamtkunstwerk shows, painted garments, and the Bureau of Imagination.