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Hereke carpet
A Hereke carpet is a hand-knotted Turkish carpet first woven from 1891 at an imperial factory near Istanbul, known for fine Bursa silk and floral palace designs.
Heritage preservation in South Korea
Heritage preservation in South Korea: the state system of designating and transmitting cultural, natural, and intangible heritage under the Framework Act on National Heritage (2024), administered by the Korea Heritage Service with seven designation categories and a holder-based intangible transmission system.
Hermès
Hermès International, French luxury house founded 1837 in Paris by Thierry Hermès as a saddlery workshop; family-controlled, known for Kelly and Birkin bags and silk carrés; 2025 revenue €16 billion with a 41% operating margin.
Heroin chic
Heroin chic: 1990s fashion photography aesthetic of emaciation, pale skin, dark circles, and androgyny, tied to Kate Moss and Corinne Day, condemned by Bill Clinton in 1997, revived in the 2020s.
Hessian fabric
Hessian fabric, called burlap in North America, is a coarse plain-woven jute cloth used for sacks, packaging, concrete curing, upholstery backing and geotextiles, typically 7-12 oz/yd with an open breathable weave.
High five
The high five, a two-person open-palm slap gesture of celebration or greeting, emerged in late-1970s American sport; claimed inventors include Glenn Burke and Dusty Baker (Dodgers, October 2, 1977) and Derek Smith (Louisville basketball), with roots in the 1920s low five.
High-visibility clothing
High-visibility clothing (hi-vis) is personal protective equipment combining fluorescent background material and retroreflective striping, worn by road, rail, and construction workers, emergency responders, cyclists, and pedestrians.
Highland dress
Highland dress is Scotland's traditional garb, built on the kilt and tartan: belted plaid origins, 1746 proscription, 1782 repeal, and the 1822 George IV visit that revived clan tartan fashion.
Highland Rape
Highland Rape is Alexander McQueen's autumn/winter 1995–96 fashion collection, shown March 1995 in London, referencing the Jacobite Risings and Highland Clearances, introducing McQueen tartan and bumster trousers, and establishing his international reputation amid misogyny controversy.
Hijab (حجاب)
Hijab (حجاب), Arabic for cover or barrier, is the modest dress and head covering of Muslim women, grounded in Quran 24:31 and 33:59, defined by juristic conditions, and today shaped by fashion, state regulation in Iran and France, and varying observance.
Hilary Rhoda
Hilary Rhoda (Hilary St. Claire), American model born 1987 in Chevy Chase, Maryland; Estée Lauder face since 2007, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2009-2011, Balenciaga Spring 2006 breakthrough, married Sean Avery 2015.
Hime cut (姫カット)
Hime cut (姫カット, princess cut) is a Japanese hairstyle with blunt fringe, disconnected cheek-length sidelocks, and long back hair; rooted in Heian-era binsogi practice, named in the 1970s via Megumi Asaoka, revived by K-pop and the 2025 Grammys.
History of bras
History of bras: the brassiere's development from Greek mastodeton and Roman strophium, medieval Lengberg Castle finds, corset-era breast supporters, Cadolle's 1889 design, Crosby's 1914 patent, and 1930s cup sizes.
History of clothing and textiles
History of clothing and textiles: from prehistoric weaving at least 23,000 years ago through ancient cotton, linen, silk, and dye traditions, industrial mechanization, synthetic fibers, and today's global textile industry employing over 90 million people.
History of clothing in the Indian subcontinent
History of clothing in the Indian subcontinent: from Indus Valley cotton and draped dhoti and sari to Mughal stitched courtly dress, colonial trade, Gandhi's khadi protest, and the modern embellished Indian fashion industry.
History of coins
History of coins: first struck electrum coins of Lydia about 650 BC, independent Chinese and Indian traditions, Roman debasement, Byzantine solidus, mechanized minting, and modern token coinage.
History of corsets
The corset is a stiffened undergarment that shaped the torso, originating in the early 16th century with Spanish aristocratic women. It was mass-produced and fell out of fashion after 1908.
History of cotton
History of cotton: independent tropical domestications, Old World spread via Muslim cultivators, the 1793 cotton gin, slave-grown US dominance, industrialization in Britain, and modern global production.
History of domestic sewing
The history of domestic sewing covers how home sewing moved from obligatory women's work to wartime necessity, declined in the late twentieth century, and revived as leisure.
History of fashion design
History of fashion design, from Charles Frederick Worth's Paris haute couture and the invention of the fashion show to ready-to-wear, Chanel, the 1945 couture regulations, labor history, and sustainability.
History of knitting
History of knitting: the looped-yarn textile technique, also called stocking knitting, traced from 12th-13th century Egyptian socks through European guilds, William Lee's 1589 stocking frame, and 19th-century mechanization to today's craft revival.
History of nudity
History of nudity: how societies treated the unclothed body. Covers Greek athletic nudity (after late 8th century BC), Roman modesty, Jewish ʿervā and Islamic ʿawra, the nude in Western art, and 20th-century naturism.
History of tattooing
History of tattooing: permanent skin marking documented for at least 5,000 years, from Ötzi the Iceman and Predynastic Egypt to Polynesian tatau, penal tattooing, and the 1891 electric tattoo machine.
History of the bikini
The bikini, a two-piece swimsuit, was created in 1946 and became a symbol of the sexual revolution, evolving from a skimpy design to a staple of American fashion.
History of the British farthing
The British farthing was the smallest denomination of English and British coinage, worth one quarter of a penny, first struck as a coin in 1279 and withdrawn in 1961.
History of the kilt
History of the kilt: the Scottish Highland garment's development from the 16th-century belted plaid (feileadh mor) through the 18th-century little kilt, the 1747 proscription, George IV's 1822 visit, and modern reinvention.
History of the rupee
History of the rupee: South Asian currency family named from Sanskrit rupya, 'wrought silver'; begun with Sher Shah Suri's 1540s rupiya, uniform at 180 grains in 1835, decimalised mid-1950s, now fiat currencies of India, Pakistan, Nepal and others.
History of the tunic
The history of the tunic covers the closed, over-the-head garment that was the basic dress of men and women in antiquity and the European Middle Ages.
Hobble skirt
Hobble skirt: a woman's skirt cut so narrow below the knee that the wearer could only take mincing steps. Popularized by Paul Poiret in Paris around 1910–1914; hem under 36 inches, worn with leg tapes, slits, and tunics.
Hollister Co.
Hollister Co. (HCo.), an American teen and young-adult clothing retailer founded by Abercrombie & Fitch in 2000, known for its Southern California surf branding, seagull logo, dark stores, Gilly Hicks line, and TikTok-led post-2023 turnaround.