Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1890 — The Craze for Wearing Wigs. [ARTICLE]

The Craze for Wearing Wigs.

New York-Star.——-* —— The craze for wearing wigs among English women is finding its imitation among fashionable women on this side of the sea. They assign various reasons for adopting the custom, among the most general being the greater convenience and durability of their coiffures over those made up of natural hair. Women who have really fine hair object to the torturing processes of the curling-iron and haiy-dressers' shears, now so universally used in arranging the Stylish coiffure, with its multiplicity of waves and curls London women usually wear wigs the color of their own hair, so that they need not be confined to the constant wearing of them. Their chief use seems to be to carry them to the great balls and house parties, where it is not always convenient to take a maid. A great many of them appeared at the recent drawing-room, and, as an event so as that would naturally fill the hair-dressers’ parlors with anxious ladies, and necessitate a great deal of waiting for service, one can understand the convenience of having one’s hair sent home, done up and ready, the day before.