February 01, 2023

Why Do People Wear Wigs?

Why do humans wear wigs, and when did this particular fashion trend come to be? Come with Teagan and Bekah as they go on a journey through the history of wigs and learn all about these odd hair hats!

Why do humans wear wigs, and when did this particular fashion trend come to be? Come with Teagan and Bekah as they go on a journey through the history of wigs and learn all about these odd hair hats!

 

Men wearing Perukes

 

Some examples of Gache wigs

A wig from Ancient Egypt

Marie Antoinette's famous ship wig

Sources:

Kwass, Michael. “Big Hair: A Wig History of Consumption in Eighteenth‐Century France.” The American Historical Review, vol. 111, no. 3, 2006, pp. 631–59. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr.111.3.631. Accessed 21 Jan. 2023.

Gayne, Mary K. “Illicit Wigmaking in Eighteenth-Century Paris.” Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, 2004, pp. 119–37. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30053631. Accessed 21 Jan. 2023.

Hosford,  Desmond. “The Queen’s Hair: Marie-Antoinette, Politics, and DNA.” Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, 2004, pp. 183–200. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30053635. Accessed 21 Jan. 2023.

Markiewicz, Emma (2014) Hair, wigs and wig wearing in eighteenth-century England. PhD thesis, University of Warwick. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/66909/

The Wig : A Hairbrained History by Luigi Amara , and Christina MacSweeney

The Bug Video: https://youtu.be/__5B3PGoBoI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIYUVHIUdfM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n57NZCjOAKI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnhZe6jT060

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_covering_for_Jewish_women

https://silkorlace.com/blogs/main/this-history-of-wigs-in-jewish-culture-an-interview-with-bracha-kanar-of-sayar-wigs

https://www.chabad.org/theJewishWoman/article_cdo/aid/336035/jewish/Why-Do-Jewish-Women-Cover-Their-Hair.htm

https://www.britannica.com/topic/wig

https://therenatural.com/blogs/renatural/a-few-things-we-bet-you-didnt-know-about-korean-wig-culture

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/women-hair-wigs-south-korea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gache