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Trench coat
Trench coat: a long, water-resistant, double-breasted belted overcoat adapted from WWI British officer outerwear, made traditionally of Burberry's 1879 gabardine, later a Hollywood and fashion classic.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (March 25, 1911) killed 146 garment workers, mostly young immigrant women, in New York's Asch Building; locked doors, a collapsed fire escape, and short ladders led to New York factory safety reforms.
Tricorne
Tricorne (also tricorn): a hat with the brim cocked up on three sides, the standard men's headwear of the 18th century; originally called a cocked hat, the name tricorne came later.
Trilby
Trilby: a soft felt hat with a short (under 2 inch) brim angled down at the front and up at the back, shorter crown than a fedora, named after du Maurier's 1894 novel Trilby and its stage adaptation; chiefly British, casual wear.
Trinidad and Tobago Carnival
Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, the pre-Lenten festival on Carnival Monday and Tuesday in Port of Spain, grew from 1783 French Creole plantation balls and post-1838 emancipation Canboulay processions into a national festival of mas, calypso, soca, and steelpan run by the National Carnival Commission.
Trousers
Trousers, or pants, are garments covering each leg separately from waist to ankles. Oldest known pair, from Yanghai, China, is about 3,300 years old, made for horse riding; adopted by men generally after the French Revolution and by women widely only in the 20th century.
Trützschler
Trützschler (Trützschler Group SE) is a German family-owned manufacturer of textile machinery for spinning preparation, nonwovens, card clothing, and man-made fibers, founded in 1888 and headquartered in Mönchengladbach.
Trypillian culture pottery
Trypillian culture pottery is the hand-made ceramic ware of the Cucuteni–Trypillia communities of Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania, from about 5400 to 2700 BC, known for painted spirals.
Tsujigahana
Tsujigahana is a Japanese textile dyeing technique from the 15th to early 17th centuries, based on tie-dye and combined with painting, embroidery, and gold-leaf imprinting.
Tuareg Surf Shop
Tuareg Surf Shop is a surf equipment and apparel sport shop in Taghazout, Morocco, run by Jamal; it rents decent surf gear and sells custom shirts with local sayings, distinguishing it from other Taghazout surf shops.
Tula samovar
The Tula samovar (тульский самовар) is a charcoal-fueled water-heating vessel for tea made in Tula, Russia, which by 1850 had some 28 factories producing about 120,000 samovars a year.
Tunic
Tunic: a simple slip-on garment, sleeved or sleeveless, usually knee-length or longer and often belted. From Latin tunica; primary male garment in ancient Peru (uncu) and the basic garment of Rome, Egypt, and Byzantium.
Tunic (military)
The military tunic is a thigh-length uniform coat that replaced the waist-length coatee in most armies from the mid-19th century; introduced in the British Army in 1855 during the Crimean War, in scarlet, khaki, and olive drab patterns.
Tunisian crochet
Tunisian crochet, also called Afghan crochet or tricot-crochet, is a hook technique where a forward pass picks loops onto a long hook and a return pass works them off, making dense, low-stretch fabric; documented in Europe from the 1850s, origin uncertain.
Tupilak
In Greenlandic Inuit belief, a tupilak was a malevolent spirit secretly created to harm an enemy, later carved in bone, tooth, or stone as a major Greenlandic art form.
Turban
Turban: a long strip of cloth wrapped around the head, also called dastar, pagri, or ʿamāma. Worn for over 4,000 years from Mesopotamia (2350 BC sculpture) across Asia and Africa; central to Sikh identity since Guru Gobind Singh's Khalsa, once universal Muslim male headgear, later banned in Turkey (1925) and Iran.
Turkmen carpet
A Turkmen carpet is a hand-knotted pile carpet woven by the Turkmen tribes of Central Asia, with rows of tribal guls on a red field, inscribed by UNESCO in 2019.
Tweed
Tweed: textured woollen fabric, twill or herringbone weave; name from an 1830s misreading of "twill". Harris Tweed, its protected variant, is legally required to be handwoven in Scotland's Outer Hebrides under the 1993 Act and Orb mark.
Twiggy
Twiggy (Dame Lesley Lawson, née Hornby, born 1949) is the English model named the Daily Express's Face of '66, the defining face of 1960s Swinging London, later an actress, singer, M&S face, and ANTM judge; not the ZZZ character or other namesakes.
Twine
Twine is a light cordage of twisted or wound yarns, thinner than cord and rope (Cordage Institute: under 0.200 in / 5 mm), made from jute, sisal, cotton, or synthetics, used for nets, binding, and tying, with Paleolithic origins.
Tyra Banks
Tyra Banks (Tyra Lynne Banks, BanX), American supermodel and media entrepreneur: first Black Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover model, Victoria's Secret Angel, creator-host of America's Next Top Model, Tyra Banks Co. CEO.
Tyrian purple (πορφύρα)
Tyrian purple (πορφύρα), also royal or imperial purple, is an ancient reddish-purple vat dye of 6,6′-dibromoindigo from murex snail hypobranchial glands; 12,000 snails yielded 1.4 g, and Diocletian's AD 301 edict priced purple silk at 150,000 denarii per pound.
Tyrolean hat
The Tyrolean hat, or Tirolerhut, is a soft felt hat from the Alpine Tyrol region, with an upturned brim and a feather, worn as part of Tracht.
Tyson Beckford
Tyson Beckford (born 1970) is an American model and actor, the first Black male supermodel. Known as the face of Ralph Lauren's 1994 Polo Sport campaign and for Zoolander, Make Me a Supermodel, and closing the Ralph Lauren F/W 26 Milan show.
Tzitzit (ציצית)
Tzitzit (ציצית), also tsitsiyot or tzitzis, are the ritually tied corner fringes commanded in Numbers 15 and Deuteronomy 22, worn on the tallit gadol prayer shawl and the tallit katan undergarment, with 8 strings, 5 knots, and 39 windings per corner.
U.S. standard clothing size
U.S. standard clothing size: voluntary body-measurement tables for American ready-to-wear, once set by NBS Commercial Standard CS215-58 (1958, withdrawn 1983), now maintained by ASTM International (D5585, D6240), with widespread vanity sizing.
UGG (brand)
UGG is an American footwear brand owned by Deckers Outdoor Corporation, founded in Southern California in 1978 by Australian surfer Brian Smith and known for sheepskin boots and slippers.
Ukrainian national clothing
Ukrainian national clothing (український народний костюм) is the traditional ensemble dress of Ukrainians, centered on the embroidered vyshyvanka shirt, with regional complexes (Polissia, Podillia, Carpathians, Middle Dnipro, Slobozhanshchyna, South), roots traced to Kyivan Rus, and modern status as an identity symbol owned by 67% of Ukrainians.
Ulta Beauty
Ulta Beauty (Ulta Beauty, Inc.) is the largest specialty beauty retailer in the United States, founded in Illinois in 1990. It combines mass, prestige, and salon products, about 29,000 products from 600 brands, salon services, a 45-million-member loyalty program, and international operations via Space NK, a Mexico joint venture, and a Middle East franchise.
Umar Kamani
Umar Kamani, British entrepreneur, co-founded fast-fashion e-tailer PrettyLittleThing with brother Adam in 2012, sold it to Boohoo by 2020 for up to £323.8m, led it as CEO until 2023, returned 2024, and is building a Dubai-based fashion-wellness brand.