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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 History of Wigs

In part, the wig came into fashion to combat lights. But at the same time, there were all these sort of horror stories about wigs. There's a fairly famous letter from the 17th, 70s that purports to be a young man who's gone to the hairdresser with his older aunt and tells this disgusting story of him crack. You tell it on your head.

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