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Article: WIGS, UNCOVERED.
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- Household & Personal Products Industry
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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I WELCOMED the new millennium in colonial Williamsburg, VA. As I strolled through this restored colonial village, I spotted a wigmaker's shop and decided to watch a demonstration of 18th century wig-making. That demonstration provided the inspiration for this month's column.
Hair has been manipulated by dyeing, bleaching, oiling, powdering, pomading, cutting, curling, straightening, shaving off completely or augmenting with animal hair or hair from other human heads since the beginning of recorded time. Beards were customary among ancient Greeks until Alexander the Great ordered his soldiers to shave, lest the enemy use their beards as a convenient handle during ...