tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post5772377694322630906..comments2024-03-14T13:25:20.613-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: "The Fashionable Wig" from WilliamsburgUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-70606887593672501222007-01-09T21:14:00.000-05:002007-01-09T21:14:00.000-05:00I should have been more clear that I quoted the Co...I should have been more clear that I quoted the Colonial Williamsburg wigmaker, but can't confirm all that she said in this podcast. On one point, as I wrote, I think she's wrong. <br /><br />I've come across no shaving women, but then I focus on New England, which wasn't like the rest of the British Empire, much less France. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.wm.edu/niahd/journals/index.php?browse=entry&id=5569">This description of a 2006 teachers' conference</a> shows that folks at CW are still telling visitors that some colonial ladies shaved their heads to wear wigs. But no names offered.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-60161983296980950702007-01-09T19:07:00.000-05:002007-01-09T19:07:00.000-05:00What! Ladies with shaven heads? Hairpieces I can b...What! Ladies with shaven heads? Hairpieces I can believe, wigs for very elderly ladies with hair loss I can believe -- but ladies of fashion with deliberately bald heads in the eighteenth century? Name one. I stand ready to be corrected.<br /><br />(Unless, of course, it's the same crowd that today would be having cosmetic surgery and liposuction.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com