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Wigging Out: Fake Hair That Made Real History, an interview with Jessica Glasscock, pt. 1

Dressed: The History of Fashion

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The Rise of the Puff Hairstyle

In the late 18th century, Marie Antoinette wore her natural hair most of the time. Wigs reached perhaps our most epic proportion of all time during this period. To construct the Puff, you would need a hair pad that was going to go two to three feet over your head.

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