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Token coin
Token coin: a coin-like, privately issued substitute for legal-tender money, usually struck in base metal with a denomination, part of exonumia; historical English, American, casino, and modern digital-token senses.
Tokoname ware
Tokoname ware (常滑焼, Tokoname-yaki) is Japanese pottery made around Tokoname in Aichi Prefecture since the 12th century; one of the Six Ancient Kilns, it is known for vermilion shudei teapots.
Tom Ford
Tom Ford (Thomas Carlyle Ford, born 1961, Austin, Texas) is an American fashion designer and filmmaker, creative director of Gucci 1994–2004 and Yves Saint Laurent from 2000, founder of the Tom Ford brand (sold to Estée Lauder for $2.8bn in 2022), and director of A Single Man and Nocturnal Animals.
Tommy Hilfiger
Tommy Hilfiger (Thomas Jacob Hilfiger, b. 1951): American premium lifestyle fashion brand founded 1985 in New York with Murjani backing, flag logo, 1990s hip-hop adoption, PVH-owned since 2010 alongside Calvin Klein, ~$9 billion retail sales.
Tommy Hilfiger (company)
Tommy Hilfiger (company): American apparel and lifestyle brand founded in New York City in 1985 by designer Tommy Hilfiger; brands TOMMY HILFIGER and TOMMY JEANS; owned by PVH Corp. since a 2010, $3 billion (€2.2 billion) acquisition from Apax Partners; about $9 billion global retail sales in 2025.
Toms Shoes
TOMS Shoes (TOMS Shoes, LLC), founded by Blake Mycoskie in 2006, is the footwear brand behind the One for One giving model and the Alpargata slip-on; now creditor-owned and a B Corp scoring 126.7.
Tongue piercing
Tongue piercing, an intraoral body piercing usually placed midline with a barbell, is the most common oral piercing site. Key facts: 44% gingival recession and 26% tooth damage in wearers, seven-fold gum-recession risk, no measurable long-term speech effect, and ADA opposition since 1998.
Tongue splitting
Tongue splitting, also called tongue bifurcation or forking, is an extreme body modification that divides the anterior tongue into two forked tips. First documented in 1994, it carries risks of hemorrhage, infection, nerve damage, and speech changes, and is illegal for cosmetic practitioners in England and Wales and restricted in some US states.
Toni Garrn
Toni Garrn (Antonia Garrn, born 1992, Hamburg) is a German model, philanthropist, and entrepreneur, known for an exclusive 2008 Calvin Klein contract, Victoria's Secret Angel status, the Toni Garrn Foundation, and Super Flea Market.
Tonsure
Tonsure, from Latin tonsura (tondere, to shear), is the Christian practice of shaving or cutting head hair as a sign of religious dedication, with Roman (Peter), Eastern (Paul), and Celtic (John) forms; abolished as a Catholic requirement by Paul VI in 1972.
Tony Award for Best Costume Design
The Tony Award for Best Costume Design honors Broadway costume designers; a 1947 original category, split into Dramatic and Musical in 1960-1961 and into Play and Musical awards since 2005.
Top hat
Top hat (silk hat, stovepipe, plug, chimney-pot; French haut-de-forme, Spanish chistera): tall cylindrical men's formal hat, dominant 19th-century headwear, beaver then silk plush, now worn mainly at weddings.
Toplessness
Toplessness is the state of not covering the torso, especially female breast exposure in public or media. Covers etymology (1580–90), historical cultural norms from Egypt, Greece, and India, and US law: 34 states permit, 3 prohibit, courts mostly uphold female-only bans.
Toque
Toque is a brimless, close-fitting hat that covers several traditions. These include the tall, pleated chef's hat, women's fashion hats, and Canadian knitted winter caps.
Tory Burch
Tory Burch: American luxury lifestyle brand founded in 2004 by designer Tory Burch, known for the Reva ballet flat, Double T logo, accessible-luxury positioning, near-$2 billion 2023 revenue, and the Tory Burch Foundation for women entrepreneurs.
Toshiko MacAdam
Toshiko MacAdam (堀内紀子, Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam), born 1940 in Tokyo, is a Japanese textile artist in Nova Scotia known for hand-crocheted nylon play structures, including Woods of Net at the Hakone Open-Air Museum, made with Charles MacAdam via Interplay.
Toshiko Taira
Toshiko Taira (平良敏子, 1921–2022) was an Okinawan weaver who revived bashofu, the traditional banana-fiber cloth of Okinawa, in her home hamlet of Kijoka after World War II.
Tote bag
Tote bag: large open-top canvas or fabric bag with two parallel handles. Etymology: 'tote' (carry) from 1670s Virginia; 'tote bag' by 1900. Iconic example is L.L.Bean's Boat and Tote, begun as the 1944 Bean's Ice Carrier for hauling block ice.
Toukie Smith
Toukie Smith (Doris A. Smith), American model and actress; runway model for Givenchy, Chanel, Miyake, and Mugler; sister of Willi Smith; played Eva Rawley on 227 and Angie on Miami Vice; partner of Robert De Niro.
Tracht
Tracht (Trachten) is the traditional regional festive dress of rural populations in German-speaking Alpine Europe, including dirndl and lederhosen; revived in the 19th century via Bavarian royal patronage and Trachtenvereine, it signals regional identity today.
Traditional dress of Portugal
The traditional dress of Portugal is festive rural folk costume, best known through the traje à vianesa of Viana do Castelo, a gold-adorned women's dress that became a national emblem.
Traditional dress of Siberian and circumpolar Asian peoples
Traditional dress of Siberian and circumpolar Asian peoples is fur- and skin-based clothing of peoples such as the Nenets, Evenki, Chukchi, and Sakha, among the first makers of tailored garments.
Traditional dress of Spain
Traditional dress of Spain is regional folk dress in three zones, north, central, and Andalusian-Mediterranean, codified nationally at a 1925 Madrid exhibition and still worn at festivals.
Traditional dress of the Americas, Arctic and Africa: comparative overview
Traditional dress of the Americas, Arctic, and Africa consists of locally made clothing systems in which materials, cut, and decoration respond to climate, trade, and social meaning.
Traditional dress of the Netherlands
Traditional dress of the Netherlands (klederdracht, streekdracht): region-bound folk clothing, never one national costume, with per-town variants signaling religion, wealth and mourning; only Arnemuiden, Marken, Staphorst-Rouveen and Bunschoten-Spakenburg still wear it daily, while Volendam dress dominates the tourist image.
Traditional Italian regional dress
Traditional Italian regional dress is the local folk costume worn in Italy's regions, with no single national dress because each region has its own traditions, culture, and climate.
Traditional Native American clothing
Traditional Native American clothing, including regalia, is Indigenous North American dress of hides, quillwork, beadwork, and trade cloth; each tribe has distinct styles, and headdresses and ceremonial items are restricted.
Traditional Thai clothing
Traditional Thai clothing (chut thai, ชุดไทย) covers Thai national and ethnic dress: pha nung, sinh, sabai, chong kraben, and the eight Queen Sirikit-era Phra Ratcha Niyom styles plus three men's shirts, now under 2026 UNESCO review.
Trainspotters in the United Kingdom
Trainspotters in the United Kingdom: British hobbyists who record locomotive numbers ('cops') in Ian Allan ABC data books. Began with Fanny Johnson in 1861, peaked in the early 1960s with 250,000 Locospotters' Club members, and fed the railway preservation movement.
Trapunto and corded quilting
Trapunto and corded quilting are whitework techniques that raise quilted motifs with stuffing or cord inserted between fabric layers; originating in fourteenth-century Sicily, popularized in Marseilles, and widely practiced in nineteenth-century America.