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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://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
