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Thanaka (သနပ်ခါး)
Thanaka (သနပ်ခါး) is a yellowish-white cosmetic paste ground from thanaka tree bark, worn on the face in Myanmar for over a millennium as skincare and sun protection.
Thawb (ثَوْب)
Thawb (ثوب), also dishdasha or kandura, is the ankle-length robe worn by Arab men, typically white and single-piece, and an embroidered women's dress in Palestine, Sinai, and the Gulf; official dress in Gulf states with regional cut variations.
The First Monday in May
The First Monday in May is Andrew Rossi's 2016 Tribeca-opening documentary about the Met Gala and the Met's record-breaking 2015 exhibition China: Through the Looking Glass, following curator Andrew Bolton and Vogue's Anna Wintour.
The Great British Sewing Bee
The Great British Sewing Bee, also called the Sewing Bee, is a Love Productions BBC competition for amateur home sewers, running since 2 April 2013, judged by Patrick Grant and Esme Young, twelve contestants over ten weeks per series.
The North Face
The North Face is an American outdoor apparel and equipment brand founded in 1966 by climber Doug Tompkins in San Francisco and owned by VF Corporation since 2000.
The Price Is Right models
The Price Is Right models, known as "Barker's Beauties" from 1972 to 2007, present prizes and assist pricing games on the CBS game show; six models currently rotate, with Rachel Reynolds and James O'Halloran among them.
The Row (fashion label)
The Row, American luxury fashion label founded by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (established 2005, launched 2006), named for Savile Row; logoless quiet-luxury clothing and bags, ~$1 billion valuation after 2024 minority stake by Chanel and L'Oréal owners.
The Sacred Pipe
The Sacred Pipe is a ceremonial pipe central to Lakota religion, an instrument of prayer and portable altar given to the people by White Buffalo Calf Woman.
Theatrical costume collections
Theatrical costume collections preserve stage dress from theater, opera, and ballet with the accessories and archives tying each garment to a production; the National Centre of Stage Costume in Moulins is the field's reference point.
Thierry Mugler
Manfred Thierry Mugler (1948-2022), French designer who founded Maison Mugler in 1974, famed for sculptural hyperfeminine silhouettes, spectacular runway shows, and the 1992 gourmand perfume Angel; house now owned by L'Oréal.
Thigh-high boots
Thigh-high boots (cuissardes): boots whose shaft reaches the upper thigh. Created by Roger Vivier for Yves Saint Laurent Fall 1963, popularized by Beth and Herbert Levine, and a recurring Fall/Winter 2026 runway trend.
Thimble
Thimble: a small bell-shaped cap, usually metal, worn on the finger or thumb to push a sewing needle and protect the skin; also called thymel, from Old English thūma. Known from Han Dynasty China and Roman bronze examples; mass-produced from the late 17th century.
Thom Browne
Thom Browne is an American fashion designer and luxury label founded in 2001 in New York's West Village, known for shrunken gray suits, the Four Bar stripe, theatrical runway shows, majority ownership by the Zegna Group, and the CFDA chairmanship.
Thong
Thong: a panty or bikini bottom with a narrow 1–3 cm strip between the buttocks; g-string is a thinner variant. Modern form created by Rudi Gernreich, produced as women's underwear by Lily of France from 1975.
Three Wolf Moon
Three Wolf Moon is a wolf-and-moon graphic t-shirt by The Mountain of New Hampshire, artwork by Antonia Neshev, which became a 2009 Amazon bestseller after ironic customer reviews begun by Brian Govern went viral.
Threepence (British coin)
British pre-decimal coin worth 3d, a quarter shilling (1.25p decimal), also called the thruppenny bit; silver from 1551, twelve-sided nickel-brass from 1937; demonetised 31 August 1971, surviving in Maundy money.
Thumb signal
Thumb signal, chiefly the thumbs-up (thumbs down) gesture: raised thumb meaning approval in the West, with Roman pollice verso origins disputed, insult and hitchhiking readings in Britain and Australia, and the Hawaiian shaka as a related gesture.
Thylane Blondeau
Thylane Blondeau (born 2001) is a French model and entrepreneur, named "Most Beautiful Girl in the World" by Vogue Enfants in 2006, famous for the 2011 Tom Ford–guest-edited French Vogue shoot, L'Oréal ambassador, founder of Heaven May and Enalyht.
Tiara
Tiara: a semicircular jeweled head ornament worn by women, from the Persian royal headdress name (Greek tiara, kokoshnik variant). Distinguished from the full-circle crown and three-quarter diadem; papal tiara last used at Paul VI's 1963 coronation.
Tibetan rug weaving
Tibetan rug weaving is the craft of making knotted-pile wool carpets on the Tibetan Plateau, used for seating, sleeping, and ritual, and carried into exile in Nepal after 1959.
Tights
Tights are a single knitted garment covering the legs from waist to toes, also called pantyhose when sheer. Invented by Allen Gant (PantiLegs, 1959), popularized by Mary Quant and the miniskirt, made mainly of nylon and elastane.
Tilaka (तिलक)
Tilaka (तिलक, Sanskrit "mark") is the Hindu forehead mark, distinct from the women's bindi dot, indicating sectarian affiliation; applied by hand or stamp with sandalwood paste, turmeric, or sacred ash; Pew India survey: 84% of Hindu women wear a bindi, 53% of Hindu men a tilak.
Tin foil hat
Tinfoil hat: an aluminum-foil cap humorously believed to block mind control, and shorthand for conspiracy theorists. Origin in Julian Huxley's 1926-27 story "The Tissue-Culture King"; the 2005 MIT study found certain frequency amplification, not protection.
Tinsel
Tinsel: glittering thin strips or threads of metal or metal-coated plastic; originally a mid-15th-century English name for costly cloth interwoven with gold or silver thread, from Old French estincelle, spark.
Titus cut
Titus cut (coiffure à la Titus): short French Revolutionary-era hairstyle imitating busts of Emperor Titus, equal length front and back, worn by men and women from about 1791 to 1810, linked to republican antiquity and guillotine traditions.
TJ Maxx
TJ Maxx, known as TK Maxx in Europe and Australia, is an American off-price retailer founded in 1976 as the first banner of The TJX Companies.
TJX Companies
TJX Companies is an American off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions, operating over 5,200 stores in ten countries under banners including TJ Maxx, Marshalls, and HomeGoods.
TK Maxx
TK Maxx, the European and Australian off-price retail chain of The TJX Companies (parent of TJ Maxx), launched in Bristol in 1994, renamed from TJ Maxx to avoid confusion with a Liverpool retailer, selling branded goods up to 60% below RRP across 673 European and 88 Australian stores.
Toga
The toga was the semicircular woolen outer garment of male Roman citizens, draped without fastenings over a tunic. Also togati; marked citizenship, rank (praetexta, picta), and declined to ceremonial dress.
Toile de Jouy
Toile de Jouy (French for "cloth from Jouy") is a printed cotton fabric with large monochromatic floral or figural scenes, named after Jouy-en-Josas near Versailles, where Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf founded France's first printed textile factory in 1760.