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Morgan dollar
Morgan dollar: United States silver dollar designed by George T. Morgan, struck 1878-1904 and 1921 in .900 silver under the Bland-Allison Act; key dates 1889-CC, 1893-S, 1895.
Moriones Festival
Moriones Festival (Moryonan), Holy Week tradition of Marinduque, Philippines, where masked penitents in Roman soldier costumes reenact the conversion and beheading of Longinus, from Holy Monday to Easter Sunday.
Morning dress
Morning dress is the most formal British daytime dress code for men, combining a cutaway morning coat, waistcoat, and striped trousers; it is worn at royal weddings and Ascot.
Moschino
Moschino is an Italian luxury fashion house founded in Milan in 1983 by designer Franco Moschino, known for ironic, tongue-in-cheek designs and slogans that parody fashion conventions.
Mossimo
Mossimo is an American apparel brand founded in 1986 by Mossimo Giannulli, taken public in 1996, licensed exclusively to Target from 2000, sold to Iconix in 2006, and dropped by Target in 2017.
Mossimo Giannulli
Mossimo Giannulli, also known as Massimo Giannulli, is an American fashion designer who founded Mossimo, Inc. and later married actress Lori Loughlin.
Mountmellick embroidery
Mountmellick embroidery, or Mountmellick work, is an Irish white-on-white surface embroidery from Mountmellick, County Laois, developed by Johanna Carter around 1825; worked in thick cotton thread on satin jean with raised floral motifs, no openwork, and a knitted fringe.
Mourning
Mourning: culture-specific practices, especially dress and color, marking a death. Western black (Victorian codification, stages, WWI decline) versus East Asian white hemp attire; also Tahitian, Jewish, and South Asian variants.
Mufti (dress)
Mufti (dress) means civilian clothes worn by someone who usually wears a uniform, from Arabic muftī (Muslim legal expert, issuer of fatwas). British army slang from India, first recorded early 19th century (1816), perhaps via the stage mufti's robe and slippers; basis of 'mufti day' in schools.
Muji (無印良品)
Muji (無印良品, Mujirushi Ryohin, "no-brand quality goods") is a Japanese retail brand founded in 1980 as Seiyu's private brand with 40 products, now run by Ryohin Keikaku with over 1,400 stores worldwide and record FY2026 revenue of ¥923.5 billion.
Mummers Parade
Mummers Parade, Philadelphia New Year's Day folk parade since 1901, oldest continuous in the US; five divisions including String Band and Fancy Brigade, about 10,000 costumed performers on Broad Street.
Mumun pottery
Mumun pottery (무문토기, literally "no design") is the plain handmade earthenware that gives its name to Korea's Mumun period, dated about 1500 to 100 BC.
Mundu
Mundu (മുണ്ട്): Kerala's unstitched white or cream waist-wrap worn by men and women, distinguished from the dhoti by not passing between the legs and from the lungi by its formality; kasavu gold border marks festival wear.
Munroe Bergdorf
Munroe Bergdorf, British model, writer, and trans activist; first trans model in a L'Oréal UK campaign (2017), fired then rehired (2020); first trans UK Cosmopolitan cover (2022); memoir Transitional (2023).
Musée de la mode et du textile
Musée de la mode et du textile: fashion and textile department of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, inaugurated 1986 as Musée des Arts de la Mode, renamed 1997; over 150,000 pieces from Coptic textiles to couture.
Museo del Traje
Museo del Traje (Centro de Investigación del Patrimonio Etnológico) is Spain's national costume museum in Madrid, founded by decree in 2004 but rooted in the 1925 Traje Regional exhibition; it holds over 160,000 garments spanning six centuries, including Balenciaga, Fortuny, and Marilyn Monroe's Seven Year Itch dress.
Museum collections and heritage designation of traditional dress in the Americas and Africa
Museum collections and heritage designation of traditional dress in the Americas and Africa covers how museums hold and exhibit traditional dress and how it is designated.
Museum of Anthropology at UBC
Museum of Anthropology at UBC (MOA) in Vancouver, Canada: a public, research, and teaching museum founded in 1949, housed since 1976 in an Arthur Erickson building on Musqueam territory, with nearly 50,000 works and the finest collection of works by Bill Reid.
Muslin
Muslin: plain-weave cotton fabric ranging from sheer gauze to heavy sheeting; finest historic kind woven around Dhaka, Bengal, from phuti karpas cotton; name traced to Mosul, Masulipatnam, or French mousse; now also a Bangladeshi revival fabric.
Myntra
Myntra: Indian fashion and lifestyle e-commerce platform, founded 2007 in Bengaluru, owned by Flipkart since 2014. Largest Indian online fashion retailer, ~$3.9B gross sales (2023), app-first model, 20+ private labels, EORS sale events.
Naga shawls
Naga shawls are handwoven textiles made by the Naga peoples of Nagaland in northeast India, where patterns and colors record the wearer's tribe, clan, gender, and rank.
Najeon chilgi (나전칠기)
Najeon chilgi (나전칠기), Korean mother-of-pearl lacquerware, inlays abalone or turban-shell nacre into lacquered wood; produced since Unified Silla, at its peak in Goryeo, a designated intangible cultural heritage craft since 1966.
Nakshi kantha
Nakshi kantha (নকশি কাঁথা) is a traditional embroidered quilt of Bengal, made by rural women who layer worn cloth and work decorative patterns into it with running stitches.
Nampeyo
Nampeyo (c. 1856–1942) was a Hopi-Tewa potter of Hano village on First Mesa, Arizona, who revived the ancient Sikyatki style and is often called the first known Native American artist.
Nampeyo Pottery Designs (Sikyatki Revival Painted Ware)
Sikyatki Revival painted ware is a Hopi and Hopi-Tewa pottery style developed from the 1880s by Nampeyo of Hano, who reworked ancestral Sikyatki Polychrome designs into bold, asymmetrical compositions in red and black on yellow.
Nanbu tetsubin
Nanbu tetsubin (南部鉄瓶) is a cast-iron kettle for boiling water made in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, hand cast in sand molds and designated a Traditional Craft in 1975.
Nancy Zieman
Nancy Zieman (1953–2017) was an American sewing author and host of Sewing With Nancy, the longest-running sewing series on television (1982–2017), and founder of the mail-order company Nancy's Notions.
Nanjing cloud brocade
Nanjing cloud brocade (南京云锦, Nanjing Yunjin) is a richly patterned silk brocade woven in Nanjing, China, on large wooden drawlooms by two craftspeople working together.
Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell, born 1970 in South London, is an English supermodel, the first Black cover model of Paris Vogue (1988) and TIME (1991), a member of the 1990s "Trinity" and "Big Six," subject of the V&A's NAOMI: In Fashion exhibition.
Napapijri
Napapijri is an Italian outdoor-lifestyle apparel brand founded in 1987 in Aosta by Giuliana Rosset, named after the Finnish word for the Arctic Circle. Known for the Skidoo and Rainforest anoraks and Norwegian-flag logo, it has been owned by VF Corporation since 2004.