Category: The war against baldness

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.
  • The comb-over — Combing long side hair across a bald scalp is one of the oldest tricks against baldness — and, improbably, a patented invention. In 1977 a father and son were granted a US patent for the comb-over, and in 2004 it won them an Ig Nobel Prize.

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