Wig from ancient Egypt to Europe. Ancient Greece, ancient Rome that bald people are subject to punishment from the gods, the bald regarded as sinners. Thinning hair or bald officer will be some Greek Territory Executive refused to arrange for them to work. The Romans even had intended to let Parliament passed the the "Baldy Act prohibits a bald man running for the Senate, bald slaves can only be sold for half price. Baldy in order to be free from discrimination, to wear a wig to cover this flaw. The wig further popularized in the Roman Empire, the Europeans have to use a wig, and even the emperor wearing a human hair wigs, often as a trophy tribute court for war when the enemy soldiers and civilians of the hair. Some aristocratic slave's hair will be shaved off the wig. The custom at that time married women should hair covered some poor married women sell their hair for cash. Some poor farmers will own hair bundle from forged braids, long enough length cut to sell wigs market.
Thousand years after the decline of the Roman Empire, Europe, influenced by the Roman Catholic Church as a devil mask, the wig, wearing a wig will hinder God's blessing into the soul. Then Catholics wear a wig, there may be excommunicated, the Church of Constantinople in 692 have a few followers because of wearing a wig was banished out of the sect, the period Europeans seldom used wigs(lace front wigs).
Until the sixteenth century, the wig was again popular, be used as a cover hair loss or to beautify the appearance of the jewelry. Poor sanitary environment make people easy long head lice, some people put hair shaved off, wearing a wig, wigs in ancient Europe, in addition to the decorative, practical function. But the revival of the wig is mainly because the members of the royal family favorite, England's Queen Elizabeth I like wearing a red wig see that. The seventeenth century male Dai Luoma wig Pioneer is King Louis XIII of France, he wear a wig to cover the scars on the head and Elegance in order to curry favor with him, have also DAI Qi wig. Son to inherit his throne Louis XIV thinning hair and wearing a wig, so subjects were imitated. When the wig as many as 45 kinds, even the full head of thick hair, people like to jump on the bandwagon. Later wig became a symbol of the great era of the monarchy.
Returning in 1660 returned to power after King Charles II in exile in France for some time, took this men's wig passed into the English-speaking countries. The length of the shoulder-length or slightly longer than shoulder wig to become men's fashion in Europe since the 1620s, and soon also popular in the British courts. London diarist Samuel Pepys (Samuel Pepys) wrote him one day in 1665 by the barber shave off the hair first thing to wear a wig, when the Black Death outbreak, he was wearing a wig very uncomfortable:
September 3, 1665: After getting up put on my color silk suit, very good, as well as buy a while but did not dare to wear a new wig, because I was at the outbreak of the plague Westminster buy it I would like the plague, people are afraid of the wig from people have died of the epidemic head to take to the manufacture of hair, fear of contagious no one would dare to buy wigs, wig fashion would happen then?
Orignal From: The Wig history (1)
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