print email comment close Big Hair: A Wig History of Consumption in Eighteenth-Century France URL: http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/111.3/kwass.html Description: This article provides a social, cultural, and economic evaluation of the wig in 18th century France. The article notes that while "it is common to regard the wig of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as an aristocratic ornament of Old Regime Europe ... the wigs of eighteenth-century Western Europe seem to have tumbled down the social hierarchy." From the American Historical Review, published by the American Historical Association. Author: Kwass, Michael Publisher: The American Historical Association LII Database Information: Record 25456 created by Maria Brandt on 02/11/2008 Last modification on 02/27/2008 Published: 02/27/2008   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25456