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The history of wigs , after the leap .
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wig have been wear for thousands of year ; the ancient Egyptians , for example , wear off them to protect their shaven heading from the Lord’s Day . Other ancient peoples , including the Assyrians , Phoenicians , Greeks and Romans also used wigging . peculiarly , they are in the main a westerly pattern of frock ; in the Far East they have rarely been used except in the traditional theatre of China and Japan .
After the surrender of the Roman Empire the usance of wig fall into suspension in the West for a thousand years , until revive in the sixteenth 100 as a way of compensating for tomentum loss or ameliorate one ’s personal appearance . They also served a hard-nosed aim ; the unhygienic condition of the time meant that hair draw head lice , a problem that could be much reduced if instinctive pilus was knock off and replaced with a more easily de - loused artificial hairpiece .
Royal patronage was crucial to the revitalization of the wig . Queen Elizabeth I of England splendidly fag out a red wig , tightly and in an elaborate way curled in a " Roman " style , and King Louis XIII of France pioneer wigging - wearing among men from the 1620s onwards .
peruke or perukes for men were introduced into the English - speaking public with other Gallic style when Charles II was restored to the throne in 1660 , follow a lengthy exile in France . These wigs were shoulder - duration or retentive , imitate the longsighted hair that had become stylish among men since the 1620s . Their use soon became popular in the English homage . …
With wigging becoming virtually obligatory garb for men of virtually any significant social rank , wigmaker gather considerable prestige . A wigmaker ' guild was established in France in 1665 , a maturation soon copied elsewhere in Europe . Their task was a skilled one , as seventeenth C wigs were inordinately elaborated , spread over the back and shoulder and flow down the thorax ; not surprisingly , they were also passing heavy and often uncomfortable to wear . Such wig were expensive to farm , as the best examples were made from rude human haircloth ; the hair of horses and stooge was often used as a cheesy alternative .
During the 18th century wigs became small and more courtly , with several professions follow them as part of their prescribed costumes ; this custom pull through in a few legal scheme . They were routinely jade in western European country and the British colonies of North America . The wearing of wigs as a symbolisation of social status was largely abandon in the freshly created United States and France by the start of the nineteenth century , although it persist a slight longer in the United Kingdom . Women ’s wigs developed in a somewhat different way . They were wear from the eighteenth C onwards , although at first only sneakily , and full wig in the 19th and early 20th hundred were not fashionable .
