#wig snatching

[godliman]

V&A Design a Wig

In the late 18th century, women's hair styles went crazy! Create and share your own hair-raising design.

Because we all deserve to look fabulous. My darlings, I am honoured to present to thee the V&A Design a Wig workshop, where everyone's dreams of powdered curls can become true! Make those wigs as gigantic as you can and do not restrain thyselves when it comes to the decorations.

[jokerasylum91]

the wig snatcher of Sweetener <3 it’s perfection

[thatmermaidsequinbomberjacket]

Pretty Much...

[flickeralley]

Roxie Hart  – the original wig snatcher.

CHICAGO (1927) available on DVD and streaming at www.flickeralley.com

[godliman]

Heads on the Nude: Wig Snatching in 18th Century England

Getting your fingers inside powdered curls could feed your family for a month in 18th Century England. 

Perhaps the most notorious statement of 18th Century aesthetics is the commonplace use of wigs among noble and rich people. Though the wig is often said to have been a common way to hide syphilis, the truth is that the puffy powdered wigs that characterized the 17th and 18th Centuries were a fashion statement pioneered by French Royalty, with Louis XIV employing dozens of perruquiers. The Sun King would go great lengths to avoid being seen without his increasingly large wigs on, and other courts of Europe followed suit; England was no exception. Charles II is the earliest English king to be depicted with a periwig, and the use of wigs in different styles caught on with other affluent spheres of English society. The use of wigs was restricted only for those who could pay the price: William Andrews quotes Malcom’s Manners and Customs, where the price of a white wig —the most fashionable and valuable color then— for the year 1734 is stated as being of four guineas: little less than £500 in 2021 money. There was certainly no shortage of people who would seize the opportunity to make money by snatching powdered curly locks from their owners.

The most common scheme, according to Andrews, would need three accomplices. A boy would be carried in a butcher’s tray by an adult man, and the boy would snatch the wig. A third person would step in to ‘aid’ the bewildered wig owner in the finding of their lost hairpiece, with no other purpose than helping the man and the child escape from the scene. Georgiana Hill describes men who would get in the way of hackney coaches to slow them down and snatch the wigs of the people inside, both men and women. Not coins, not jewels, highwaymen were often content enough with putting their fingers into the powdered wigs of people. People would also have to be careful when walking by the streets, as any hand could snatch their wig at any moment. Monkeys, dogs, children, everyone was after the eccentric hairpieces that adorned the heads of England’s upper echelons of society. With the increasingly short styles worn by men, and the final abandonment of the wig in the last decade of the 18th Century —as wigs rolled along with the head of the wearer in Revolutionary Paris— thieves had to reinvent themselves.

Works Cited

Andrews, William. At the Sign of the Barber's Pole: Studies In Hirsute History. Cottingham: J.R. Tutin, 1904.

Hill, Georgiana. A History of English Dress from the Saxon Period to the Present Day. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1893. Internet Archive, http://archive.org/details/historyofenglish02hill.

[thenamebunnin]

I was on youtube watching some wig fails compilation, but I didn't know it was going to be some wig snatching compilation. For some reason some people think that snatching a persons wig isn't wrong in anyway shape or form. I already don't like the prank side of youtube, but godamn taking peoples property isn't funny.

There were people commenting under the comment section trying to justify this behaviour, telling people that, "She should have worn her natural hair." "Why are they mad. It's just a wig".

Like, no. You're not suppost to be touching someone elses property. You wouldn't like someone to take of your hat or durag, or even yank your hair to see if it is a wig.

[godliman]

Attention: England's Priciest Wig is Lost. Hefty-Reward-No-Questions to Whomever Turns It In.

These malefactors are becoming smarter with time! Lady Mary Anne Kettering-Lutherworth was on her way to a ball in St James's Palace when tragedy struck upon her. Lady Mary Anne would don what is now considered to be England's most valuable wig: a family heirloom of the Kettering-Lutherworth family made with hair of several of its members and adorned with up to fifty pound sterling of decorations, which includes fans, diamonds and a replica of HMS Royal Sovereign. The wig was last seen when Lady Mary Anne was traveling from her London Home to St James's Palace in a custom-made coach to fit the wig, when the coach was halted by a monkey riding a hound, a frightful sight to behold for the horses. Four men and three women surrounded the coach and grabbed the decorations, and successfully caught the wig in one piece. His Majesty George the Second, By the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Archtreasurer and Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg is offering a hefty reward for whomever turns in the wig and all of its decorations in St James's Palace, no questions asked. We petition the community to aid in the recovery of the wig and help the London Social Season return to normality .

[moonreflectioninthefragglepond]

Your brother is not the only monsterfucker here dean. Your header is deceit. We have a /discord/ DEDICATED to being horny for deceit NEED I SAY MORE

....shook.

"You are" -said brother and my best friend.