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490 - Periwigs in America

The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

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The Puritans Are Against Wigs

Wig wearing was seen as a unique threat. Wigs upset indispensible hyrarcies and threatened to confound the distinctions between men and women, without which a virtuous and orderly so society could not survive. Also, god had made man with hair, and putting on a wig was to say the os weres ys. The character of garoth is going to hav fun, but i agree, this is serious.

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