Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1920 — Custom of Wig Wearing Was Started in France [ARTICLE]

Custom of Wig Wearing Was Started in France

The custom of wearing a wig as a recognized part of the costume dates \ from the early days of the seventeenth centurv. It started in France when Louts Xia being greatly struck with the "long, fair locks” of the Abbe la Rlvere, attained by the simple means of a periwig, adopted the style for Himself and so set the fashion. By The time of Charles H the wearing of the periwig, or peruke, or perruque, had become general. Pepys records the fact that he paid £3 for one; but it was not until the time of Queen that periwigs, or wigs for short, really came into their own. Then did they appear in the full glory of an ever-changing though fast-stabilizing