Category: History of hair
2 articles in this category.
- History of the toupée — Humanity has been gluing other hair to its head for at least 5,000 years. A short history of the wig and the toupée, from shaved-headed Egyptians to powdered courtiers to the modern hairpiece.
- Powdered wigs and the hair-powder tax — For a century the powdered wig was the must-have status symbol of European gentlemen. Then in 1795 Britain decided to tax the powder, the fashionable paid up, the radicals cut their hair in protest, and the whole look quietly collapsed.