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Go-to-hell pants
Go-to-hell pants (GTH pants) are boldly colored, often embroidered preppy trousers of Ivy style, named by Tom Wolfe in 1976 and originating among affluent Northeasterners in the mid-1950s.
God's eye
God's eye, or Ojo de Dios (tsikuri in Wixarika), is a votive yarn weaving on crossed sticks made by the Huichol people of western Mexico, each diamond marking a year of protection; also a popular children's craft.
Gold coin
Gold coin: struck gold money first issued in Lydia in electrum, with pure gold coinage under Croesus (561-546 BC); later solidi, florins, and modern bullion coins valued by weight and fineness.
Golden Needle Sewing School
The Golden Needle Sewing School was a secret literary circle of women writers in Herat, Afghanistan, who studied banned literature disguised as sewing classes under Taliban rule.
Goldwork (embroidery)
Goldwork (embroidery): metal-thread embroidery, also called gold embroidery or opus anglicanum in medieval England, in which gold, silver, or copper threads are couched onto fabric rather than stitched through it; originating in Han-dynasty China and still used in religious, military, and ceremonial regalia.
Golf Wang
Golf Wang, also styled GOLF WANG, is the American streetwear brand founded in 2011 by Tyler, the Creator, named as a flip on Odd Future's Wolf Gang, known for bold colors and flame motifs, with sister label Golf le Fleur and an FC Barcelona El Clasico kit.
Goodwill Industries
Goodwill Industries, formally Goodwill Industries International, is a nonprofit network founded in Boston in 1902 that sells donated goods to fund job training and employment placement services.
Gore-Tex
Gore-Tex (GORE-TEX) is W. L. Gore's trademarked waterproof, breathable fabric based on expanded PTFE, discovered by Bob Gore in 1969; nine billion pores per square inch, ePE PFAS-free membranes since 2022.
Goryeo Celadon Maebyeong with Inlaid Cranes and Clouds
The Goryeo Celadon Maebyeong with Inlaid Cranes and Clouds (청자 상감운학문 매병) is a Goryeo dynasty prunus vase from the first half of the 13th century, held at the Gansong Art Museum in Seoul.
Goryeo clothing
Goryeo clothing is the dress of Korea's Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), where Chinese-style official dress coexisted with indigenous Korean dress; a century of Mongol rule reshaped elite clothing before Ming-style dress arrived in 1386.
Goryeo handicrafts
Goryeo handicrafts (고려 수공업) were the craft-production systems of Korea's Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), organized as state-run workshops, tribute-producing settlements called 소, and temple workshops that grew major in the late period.
Goryeo metalwork
Goryeo metalwork (고려 금속공예) is the metal craft of Korea's Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), chiefly Buddhist objects, vessels, and ornaments in bronze, silver, and gold, known for silver-inlaid incense burners and repoussé with fish-roe ring-matting.
Goryeo paper
Goryeo paper (고려지, goryeoji) is the handmade paper of Korea's Goryeo dynasty, made from paper mulberry bark and prized in Song China as the finest available.
Goryeo pottery
Goryeo pottery is the ceramic ware produced in Korea during the Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), best known for its jade-green celadon and the inlay technique sanggam.
Goth subculture
Goth subculture: a music-based youth culture from late-1970s British post-punk, also called the gothic subculture, defined by gothic rock (Bauhaus, Siouxsie), the Batcave club (1982), black Victorian-influenced fashion, and club-centered social life.
Gothic fashion
Gothic fashion is the dress of the goth subculture: black Victorian- and punk-inflected clothing born in London post-punk between 1979's "Bela Lugosi's Dead" and the 1982 Batcave club, later splitting into trad, cyber, and nu-goth variants.
Gothic Lolita (ゴシック・ロリータ)
Gothic Lolita (ゴシック・ロリータ, gosu-rori, Gothloli, EGL) is a Japanese Harajuku street fashion from the 1990s combining the modest bell-skirted Lolita silhouette with Victorian-Gothic motifs, popularized via Visual Kei, Mana, KERA, and Gothic & Lolita Bible.
Goyard
Goyard, or Maison Goyard, is a French luxury trunk maker in Paris trading since 1853, with origins in Maison Martin (1792). Known for the 1892 Goyardine chevron canvas, Carcassonne workshop trunks, and Signoles family private ownership since 1998.
Grace Coddington
Grace Coddington (born 1941) is a Welsh fashion editor, former 1960s model, and longtime American Vogue creative director alongside Anna Wintour, known for narrative spreads, The September Issue, and her memoirs and Phaidon books.
Grace Elizabeth
Grace Elizabeth (Grace Elizabeth Harry Cabe, born 1997, Lake City, Florida) is an American fashion model, Victoria's Secret PINK spokesmodel, Estée Lauder face, and NOCC ambassador with over 240 runway appearances.
Grace Wales Bonner
Grace Wales Bonner, British designer of Jamaican descent, founded the London label Wales Bonner in 2014 after Central Saint Martins; won the 2016 LVMH Prize, revived the adidas Samba, and was appointed Hermès menswear creative director in October 2025.
Grand-Bassam
Grand-Bassam, first colonial capital of Côte d'Ivoire (1893–1900) on the Gulf of Guinea, a planned colonial town with the N'zima fishing village, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2012 under criteria (iii) and (iv).
Grasim Industries
Grasim Industries Limited, Aditya Birla Group flagship founded 25 August 1947 at Nagda, India, as a textile maker; now global viscose staple fibre leader, India's largest caustic soda producer, with UltraTech Cement, Birla Opus paints (1,332 MLPA), and Aditya Birla Capital.
Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry (born 1960, Chelmsford) is a British ceramicist, tapestry maker and Turner Prize 2003 winner, known for his alter ego Claire, The Vanity of Small Differences tapestries, Grayson's Art Club, and 2023 knighthood.
Great Bombay textile strike
The Great Bombay textile strike, also known as the Great Mumbai textile strike, was an 18-month strike by about 250,000 cotton textile workers in Bombay beginning in 1982.
Great Tapestry of Scotland
The Great Tapestry of Scotland is a 143-metre crewel embroidery of 160 linen panels depicting Scotland's history, stitched by over 1,000 volunteers. Conceived by Alexander McCall Smith and designed by Andrew Crummy, it is displayed at a purpose-built visitor centre in Galashiels, opened in 2021.
Greek dress
Greek dress spans the chiton, peplos, and himation of antiquity, Byzantine court costume, and the regional Ottoman-era folk costumes signaling status, age, and marital status. King Otto's foustanela and Queen Amalia's 1837 dress became the invented national costumes now worn ceremonially.
Green glazed pottery of Atzompa
Green glazed pottery of Atzompa (barro verde) is lead-glazed emerald-green ceramic from Santa María Atzompa, Oaxaca, made for at least 400 years with greta glaze, two firings, and pastillaje decoration, now adapting to lead-free standards.
Green Versace dress of Jennifer Lopez
Green Versace "jungle dress," a palm-print silk chiffon gown by Donatella Versace worn by Jennifer Lopez at the 2000 Grammys; the search demand it created led to Google Images in July 2001.
Grolier Club
The Grolier Club is a private society of bibliophiles in New York City founded in 1884, with about 800 members, a 150,000-volume research library, and free public exhibitions.