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Outlet store
Outlet store: a manufacturer- or brand-run shop selling discounted goods, originally surplus factory stock and now mostly made-for-outlet lower-quality merchandise, often clustered in outlet malls; also called factory store or factory outlet.
Oxford shoe
Oxford shoe: a lace-up dress shoe defined by closed lacing, with eyelet quarters stitched under the vamp. Also called Balmoral; contrasts with the Derby's open lacing; brogueing is separate decoration. Emerged around 1825 at Oxford University.
Paco Rabanne
Paco Rabanne (Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo, 1934–2023), Spanish-born Parisian couturier of the '12 Unwearable Dresses' (1966), built garments from metal, Rhodoïd and paper; the Puig-owned house, renamed Rabanne in 2023.
Painted Grey Ware culture
Painted Grey Ware culture: Iron Age material culture of northern South Asia, c. 1100–500/400 BCE, named after fine wheel-made grey pottery with black painted designs; over 848 sites from Punjab to the Ganga plains, succeeded by Northern Black Polished Ware.
Painted Pottery Basin with Dancing Figures
The Painted Pottery Basin with Dancing Figures (舞蹈纹彩陶盆) is a roughly 5,000-year-old Majiayao culture basin unearthed in Qinghai in 1973, decorated with fifteen hand-holding dancers, the earliest known Chinese depiction of dance.
Painted Pottery Jar with Stork, Fish, and Stone Axe
The Painted Pottery Jar with Stork, Fish, and Stone Axe (鹳鱼石斧图彩陶缸) is a Yangshao culture burial urn from about 6,000 years ago, unearthed in 1978 at Yancun, Henan, and held by the National Museum of China.
Paisley (design)
Paisley (design): the teardrop textile motif called buta or boteh in India and Persia, carried on Kashmir shawls into Europe from the mid-18th century and named after Paisley, Scotland, a 19th-century center of imitation shawl weaving using Jacquard looms.
Paisley shawl weaving of Kerman and Yazd
Paisley shawl weaving of Kerman and Yazd, known for termeh (ترمه), was the Qajar-era Persian industry that wove fine woolen shawls imitating Kashmir's from the eighteenth to early twentieth century.
Paithani
Paithani is a handwoven silk sari from Maharashtra, India, named after the town of Paithan, distinguished by tapestry-woven zari motifs that look identical on both sides of the cloth.
Pajamas
Pajamas (pyjamas), from Persian pāy-jāma 'leg garment' via Hindi/Urdu, are loose sleepwear sets; originally South Asian daywear trousers, adopted in Britain around 1870 as nightwear, fashionable for women from the 1920s.
Pakistani clothing
Pakistani clothing: national dress centred on the shalwar kameez worn by all genders, with Sindhi ajrak, Balochi embroidery, khaddar and designer lawn, plus a textile-apparel export sector exceeding US$10 billion a year.
Pakol
Pakol (pakul, khapol): soft flat-topped woollen cap with rolled brim from Gilgit and Chitral in northern Pakistan, spread to Nuristan in the late 19th century, popularized by Ahmad Shah Massud, banned by the Taliban 1996-2001.
Palestinian embroidery
Palestinian embroidery (tatreez, تطريز): cross-stitch (quṭbah fallāḥiyyah) tradition on the thob, with regional dress codes, couching and needle weaving, DMC-era changes, post-1948 national symbolism, NGO and cooperative production, and 2021 UNESCO inscription.
Palestinian keffiyeh
Palestinian keffiyeh (الكوفية الفلسطينية, hatta): square black-and-white cotton scarf fixed with an agal, once Bedouin/farmer headwear, made a national symbol in the 1936 Arab Revolt and linked to Arafat, the First Intifada, and global solidarity; Hirbawi in Hebron is the last Palestinian factory.
Pallium
Pallium: Latin for a wool mantle; classically a square woolen cloak like the Greek himation, and in the Catholic Church a white wool band with six black crosses worn by the pope and metropolitan archbishops as a badge of office, first recorded under Pope Marcus (d. 336).
Paloma Picasso
Paloma Picasso (born 1949), daughter of Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot, is a French-Spanish jewelry designer known for her Tiffany & Co. collections since 1980, her Graffiti and Olive Leaf designs, the 1984 Paloma Picasso fragrance, and her role since 2023 as administrator of the Succession Picasso.
Pamela Rooke
Pamela Rooke (23 June 1955 – 3 April 2022), known as Jordan or Jordan Mooney, English punk model and actress at Westwood and McLaren's SEX boutique, Sex Pistols circle, Jarman's Jubilee, died of bile-duct cancer.
Panama hat
Panama hat (sombrero de paja toquilla): a brimmed straw hat hand-woven in Ecuador from Carludovica palmata fiber, misnamed for its export route through Panama; UNESCO intangible heritage 2012; weaving takes one day to eight months.
Panties
Panties are close-fitting women's underpants, also called knickers or briefs. Established only in the 19th century via drawers and pantalettes; styles range from G-string to control brief; cotton is medically recommended.
Pantyhose
Pantyhose, also called panty hose or sheer tights, are one-piece nylon legwear with a built-in panty. Invented 1959 by Allen Gant Sr. (Panti-Legs, Glen Raven) and Ernest G. Rice's 1958 patent; popularized by the 1960s miniskirt.
Papakha
Papakha (папаха; Georgian ფაფახი): traditional brimless fur hat of the Caucasus and Central Asia, sheepskin, goat fur, or astrakhan, worn with the chokha, used in Russian and Soviet military dress, and popularized in MMA by Khabib Nurmagomedov.
Paracas textiles
Paracas textiles are embroidered and woven cloths made by the Paracas culture on Peru's southern coast between roughly 700 BC and 200 AD, best known as mummy wrappings.
Parfleche
A parfleche is a painted rawhide container made by Plains and Plateau Indigenous women to store food, clothing, and ceremonial belongings; the name is French for "to parry an arrow."
Parka
Parka: a hooded Arctic outer garment, also called atigi (western Siberian-Russian origin) or anorak, invented by Eskimo peoples, traditionally of hollow-haired caribou fur, later a global military and fashion coat.
Parol
The parol is a star-shaped Filipino Christmas lantern symbolizing the Star of Bethlehem, traditionally made of bamboo and paper, with its giant-lantern home in San Fernando, Pampanga.
Pasties
Pasties are small adhesive nipple coverings from burlesque performance, originating in metal breastplates of the 1893 World's Fair and 1920s dance halls, revived in the 1990s, and now worn as fashion, distinct from the Cornish pastry of the same name.
Pat Courtney Gold
Pat Courtney Gold (1939-2022), Wasco sally bag weaver of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, revived the Wasco full-turn twine technique after a mathematics career and received the 2007 NEA National Heritage Fellowship.
Pat Sheehan (model)
Pat Sheehan, born Patricia Ann Sheehan (1931-2006), American model and actress, Miss San Francisco 1950, NBC contract player, and Playboy Playmate of the Month October 1958 with Mara Corday; married Dennis Crosby.
Patagonia, Inc.
Patagonia, Inc. is an American outdoor apparel company founded in 1973 in Ventura, California by climber Yvon Chouinard, grown from Chouinard Equipment pitons; B Corp certified, 1% of sales to environmental groups, and since 2022 owned by the Patagonia Purpose Trust and Holdfast Collective.
Patan patola
Patan patola is a double ikat silk sari and ceremonial cloth woven in Patan, Gujarat, India, where each sari takes six months to a year to complete.