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Studio pottery
Studio pottery is the hand-making of ceramics by individual artist-potters in their own studios, ranging from tableware to sculpture, emerging in the early twentieth century.
Stumpwork
Stumpwork, also called raised work or raised embroidery, is three-dimensional embroidery peaked in 17th-century England, worked in silk and metal threads on satin with padding, wire, and slips on caskets and mirror frames.
Stüssy
Stüssy is an American streetwear brand founded around 1980 by Laguna Beach surfboard shaper Shawn Stussy, who signed his boards and T-shirts with his scrawled surname; formally established in 1984 with Frank Sinatra Jr., it pioneered the International Stüssy Tribe and global streetwear.
Suit
The suit, or lounge suit, is a matching set of garments that evolved from 19th-century country wear into the standard business attire of the 20th century.
Sukeban (スケバン)
Sukeban (スケバン, also 助番, onna-banchō) means Japanese female delinquent and the 1970s all-female girl gangs known for long modified sailor uniforms, concealed weapons, and the Sukeban Deka series.
Sun hat
A sun hat is a hat designed to shade the head, face, ears, and neck from solar ultraviolet radiation, with styles such as broad-brimmed, bucket, and legionnaire hats.
Superdry
Superdry is a British premium casualwear brand and retailer founded in 2003 by Julian Dunkerton and James Holder, known for vintage Americana styling with Japanese graphics, floated in 2010, restructured after heavy losses, and now trading as Superdry & Co.
Supermodel
Supermodel: celebrity-status fashion model; term popularized in the 1980s, peaked with the January 1990 British Vogue cover and the Big Six (Campbell, Crawford, Evangelista, Turlington, Schiffer, Moss), declined by 1998.
Supreme (brand)
Supreme is a New York streetwear and skateboarding brand founded by James Jebbia in April 1994 on Lafayette Street, known for its red box logo, Thursday drops, and ownership changes from Carlyle to VF to EssilorLuxottica.
Surf & Co.
Surf & Co. chiefly denotes Surf Co., a Brazilian surfwear company founded in 1982 by Alfio Lagnado (Hang Loose brand), based in São Paulo, holding Volcom, Hurley, Rusty, and Vissla licenses; also a US trademark and unrelated surf shops.
Susa pottery
Susa pottery is the painted ceramics excavated at Susa in Khuzestan, southwestern Iran, above all the tall, thin-walled painted beakers of the Susa I phase, dated to the late 5th millennium BCE.
Suseok (수석)
Suseok (수석, 壽石 or 水石), Korean viewing stones: small unaltered natural stones collected from Korean riverbeds and coasts and displayed on wooden bases, distinguished from Chinese gongshi and Japanese suiseki by an untouched aesthetic; about 80,000 practitioners and 45 museums in South Korea.
Sustainable fashion
Sustainable fashion: applying environmental and social sustainability across the clothing value chain. Also circular fashion. No single accepted definition; industry emits ~2.1 billion tonnes CO2e (2018), defined by circular business models and certification limits.
Sutton Hoo helmet
The Sutton Hoo helmet is an early 7th-century Anglo-Saxon iron and tinned copper alloy helmet from the Mound 1 ship burial in Suffolk, excavated in 1939, twice reconstructed, and held by the British Museum, with close Vendel and Valsgärde parallels.
Suzani (textile)
Suzani (suzani, 'of the needle'): large Central Asian embroidered textile from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, silk on cotton, chain and couching stitches, dowry tradition with regional styles such as Bukhara, Samarkand, and Tashkent palak.
Suzhou embroidery
Suzhou embroidery, or Su Xiu (苏绣), is a traditional silk embroidery of Suzhou, China, one of the Four Great Embroideries, known for its double-sided technique.
Suzy Miller
Suzy Miller (Suzy Hunt), British model and actress of the 1970s; first wife of Formula One champion James Hunt (married 1974, Brompton Oratory), later wife of Richard Burton; not the choreographer or playwright of the same name.
Suzy Parker
Suzy Parker (Cecilia Ann Renee Parker, 1932–2003), American fashion model and actress, the 1950s' highest-paid cover girl at $100,000 a year, muse of Richard Avedon and Coco Chanel, and star of Funny Face and Kiss Them for Me.
Swahili carved doors
Swahili carved doors are monumental carved wooden doorways marking the entrances of stone houses along the East African Swahili coast, from Mogadishu to northern Mozambique, notably in Lamu and Zanzibar.
Swan Service
The Swan Service (German: Schwanenservice) is a monumental baroque table service in hard-paste porcelain made at Meissen between 1736 and 1742 for Saxon prime minister Heinrich Graf von Brühl.
Sweater
Sweater: a knitted upper-body garment, also called jumper or pullover. Descended from the Channel Islands gansey worn by fishermen, it became fashion in the 1920s via the Prince of Wales and Chanel, and now carries a quantified wool-recycling footprint.
Sweater curse
Sweater curse, also called the boyfriend sweater curse or curse of the love sweater: a knitting superstition that hand-knitting a sweater for a romantic partner causes a breakup, explained rationally as a costly commitment signal; a 2005 poll found 15% of knitters claiming firsthand experience.
Sweatshop
A sweatshop, a term derived from the sweating system, is a workplace marked by poverty-level wages, excessive hours, and hazardous conditions, concentrated in clothing and textile manufacturing.
Swedish Textile Workers' Union
Svenska Textilarbetareförbundet, the Swedish Textile Workers' Union, was an LO-era union founded 9 April 1898, based in Norrköping, with 40,000 members by 1942; it merged into Beklädnadsarbetarnas förbund in 1972.
Swimsuit
Swimsuit: garment for swimming, evolving from 1850s wool bathing dresses through Jantzen's 1921 swimming suit, Lastex, nylon, and Lycra, to the 1946 bikini, monokini, Burqini, and recycled-fiber designs.
Swinging Sixties
The Swinging Sixties, also called Swinging London, was the youth-driven mid-to-late 1960s cultural era named by Time in 1966, defined by the miniskirt, Mary Quant's King's Road boutiques, pop music, and Chelsea's Chelsea Set.
Swoosh
The Swoosh is Nike's checkmark logo, designed in 1971 by Portland State student Carolyn Davidson for $35 (first commercial use June 18, 1971), debuting on "the Nike" football boot and becoming a standalone textless trademark by 1995.
T-shirt
T-shirt: pullover knit garment, short sleeves, crew neck, no collar or buttons. AKA tee shirt. Evolved from 19th-century men's underwear; outerwear after Marlon Brando in 1951; major protest canvas; billions sold yearly, with cotton vs polyester LCA trade-offs.
T'nalak
T'nalak (tnalak, Tenalak): sacred abaca warp-ikat textile handwoven by T'boli women of Lake Sebu, South Cotabato, Philippines, on backstrap looms; designs received in dreams from Fu Dalu, hence "dreamweavers"; used for bride wealth, rituals, clothing.
Tā moko
Tā moko (tāmoko) is the customary Māori tattooing tradition of Aotearoa New Zealand, carved with uhi chisels to encode whakapapa, iwi and status; distinct from Samoan tatau, revived from the 1970s, with kirituhi for non-Māori.