So almost from the beginning we are dealing with a work of art. The wig framed the face in the manner of a picture-frame….It served to isolate the face, give it a fallaciously noble air, raise it, as it were to a higher power.
The remarkable thing about the wig fashion is not merely that, unnatural, cumbrous and unsanitary as it was, it lasted a full century and a half, which in itself shows that it is something more than a freak of fancy…….