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Closing Time (Semisonic song)
"Closing Time" is a 1998 song by Minneapolis rock band Semisonic, written by Dan Wilson for Feeling Strangely Fine. A No. 1 Alternative hit and Grammy nominee, it carries a hidden double meaning about childbirth and remains a bar-closing anthem.
Closure of small music venues
Small music venues close when rent, licensing costs, and falling bar sales exceed door takings; UK grassroots venues fell from 960 to 835 in 2023.
Clothespin
Clothespin is a monumental sculpture of a giant steel clothespin by Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, installed at Centre Square in Center City Philadelphia in 1976 and regarded as a landmark of urban public art.
Clothing
Clothing: material body covering made of textiles or hides, providing thermal protection, hygiene, and social signaling. Key facts: eyed needles near 50,000 years ago, 132 million tonnes of fibre produced in 2024, 92 million tonnes of textile waste yearly.
Clothing in Africa
Clothing in Africa covers indigenous textile traditions such as kente, aṣọ-òkè, àdìrẹ and bògòlanfini, pre-colonial cloth production, colonial-era dress change, and a modern fashion industry with $15.5 billion in annual textile exports.
Clothing in ancient Egypt
Clothing in ancient Egypt: linen garments from flax, kilts for men and sheath dresses for women, draped rather than tailored, marked by social status; includes the Tarkhan Dress and beadnet dresses.
Clothing in ancient Greece
Clothing in ancient Greece: draped rectangular wool or linen garments, chiefly chiton, peplos, and himation, pinned and belted, made at home by women; known mainly from vase paintings and sculpture since few textiles survive.
Clothing in ancient Rome
Clothing in ancient Rome: the wool toga of the citizen (togatus), the matron's stola and palla, tunics with status stripes, and cloaks like the paenula and birrus; wool and linen textiles, Diocletian's 301 CE price edict, and the late-antique shift from toga to cloak.
Clothing in Ethiopia
Clothing in Ethiopia: handwoven cotton traditional dress such as the habesha kemis, netela, shama, and gabi, regional ethnic styles, religious and festival dress, and the modern apparel industry.
Clothing in India
Clothing in India spans draped garments like the sari and dhoti, stitched salwar kameez, and regional dress such as the phiran and mekhala chador, rooted in a 6,000-year textile history and khadi nationalism.
Clothing in Sudan
Clothing in Sudan: the women's wrapped tob (tobe) and men's white jallabiyya as national dress, plus markoob shoes, tobe naming and trade, Meroitic textile heritage, and 20th-century fashion history.
Clothing in the ancient world
Clothing in the ancient world: dress in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome, from Mesopotamian loincloths and Egyptian linen to Greek chitons, Roman-period Egyptian tunics, murex purple dye, and textile preservation conditions.
Clothing industry
The clothing industry produces, distributes, and sells garments and textile goods across a global value chain from fiber to retail. It employs over 90 million people, mostly women; Asia made 70.6% of world sector exports in 2022; global garment trade nears $550 billion; recycled fibres held only 7.6% market share in 2024.
Clothing laws by country
Clothing laws by country: national rules on dress, covering face-covering bans (France's 2010 law), mandatory attire (Iran, Afghanistan), decency and workplace dress codes, and human rights limits on regulating what people wear.
Clothing material
Clothing material (服装材料): the fabrics and auxiliary components of garments, from natural fibers like cotton, silk, and wool to chemical fibers like polyester, plus linings, threads, and fasteners, with measured comfort properties and sustainability data.
Clothing sizes
Clothing sizes are labels indicating the body measurements a ready-to-wear garment should fit. Key systems include ISO 8559, EN 13402, and ASTM tables; no binding worldwide standard exists, and vanity sizing has shifted label meanings over time.
Clotilde Crespo de Arvelo
Clotilde Crespo de Arvelo (1887–1959) was a Venezuelan poet, novelist, and travel writer nominated for the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature by philologist Manuel María Villalobos.
Clotted cream
Clotted cream (Cornish: dehen molys), also called Devonshire cream, is a thick West Country cream of at least 55% butterfat made by scalding milk; Cornish clotted cream holds PDO status since 1998.
Cloud (film)
Cloud (クラウド, Kuraudo) is a 2024 Japanese thriller by Kiyoshi Kurosawa starring Masaki Suda as online reseller Ryosuke Yoshii, alias Ratel, whose cheated customers turn to violent revenge; Venice 2024, Japan's 97th Oscars submission.
Cloud 9 (Megan Moroney album)
Cloud 9 is Megan Moroney's third studio album, released February 20, 2026 on Sony Music Nashville/Columbia. 15 country tracks, guests Ed Sheeran and Kacey Musgraves, produced mainly by Kristian Bush.
Cloud Atlas (film)
Cloud Atlas (2012) is a science fiction drama by Lana and Lilly Wachowski and Tom Tykwer, adapted from David Mitchell's 2004 novel, cross-cutting six stories from 1849 to a post-apocalyptic future with a multi-role ensemble cast.
Cloud Atlas (novel)
Cloud Atlas is a 2004 novel by David Mitchell made of six nested stories, from an 1850 Pacific voyage to a post-apocalyptic future, shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Cloud Gate
Cloud Gate, nicknamed The Bean, is Anish Kapoor's 110-ton polished stainless steel sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park, made of 168 welded plates, unveiled 2004-2006, reopened June 2024 after plaza repairs.
Cloud Nine (George Harrison album)
Cloud Nine (1987) is George Harrison's eleventh studio album, co-produced with ELO's Jeff Lynne, his comeback after five years, yielding the US No. 1 "Got My Mind Set On You" and leading to the Traveling Wilburys.
Cloud rap
Cloud rap: atmospheric hip hop subgenre from the late 2000s Southern US, blending trap 808s with ambient, chillwave, and lo-fi textures; named via a 2010 Walker Chambliss interview, pioneered by Lil B and Clams Casino.
Cloudbusting
Cloudbusting is a 1985 Kate Bush single from Hounds of Love, based on Peter Reich's A Book of Dreams about his father Wilhelm Reich; its video stars Donald Sutherland and reached UK number 20.
Cloudco Entertainment
Cloudco Entertainment (Those Characters From Cleveland, LLC), formerly American Greetings Entertainment, is a Los Angeles-based children's IP studio owning Care Bears, Holly Hobbie, and Madballs; founded 1981, owned by IVEST from 2023 and acquired by Authentic Brands Group in 2026.
Clouds (2020 film)
Clouds (2020) is a Justin Baldoni Disney+ biographical drama about singer-songwriter Zach Sobiech, who wrote the viral song "Clouds" before dying of osteosarcoma in 2013, starring Fin Argus, Sabrina Carpenter, and Neve Campbell.
Clouds (Joni Mitchell album)
Clouds is Joni Mitchell's second studio album, released on Reprise in May 1969, featuring "Both Sides, Now" and "Chelsea Morning", self-produced with engineer Henry Lewy, peaking at No. 31 on the Billboard 200 and winning the 1969 Grammy for Best Folk Performance.
Clouds of Sils Maria
Clouds of Sils Maria (Sils Maria) is Olivier Assayas's 2014 French-German-Swiss drama starring Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, and Chloë Grace Moretz; Cannes competition film, Prix Louis-Delluc winner, and Stewart's historic César.