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Welcome to Trust, the history of fashion, a podcast where we explore the who, what, when,

of why we wear.

We are fashion historians and your hosts, Cassidy Zachary and April Callahan.

Dress listeners, the show is coming in hot from Paris today by way of the Mark Honey trans-Atlantic telegraph.

We're in Paris.

Maybe not exactly, but by the time this episode does air, Cass and I will be wrapping up our second week of our fashion history tours of Paris.

So we send you our love from the city of lights across the Atlantic by way of the podcast.

Not unsimilarly to the Mark Honey telegraph and the way that that was actually the instrument for sending the following message to the fashion press in New York in 1914.

Quote, the hairdressers of Paris are adopting a novel scheme for popularizing the latest fashion freak, namely colored wigs.

400 mannequins selected from those employed by the leading couturieres are to be invited with color wigs within which to appear at balls and musical resorts of Lamarra and other rendezvous of gay paris.

At the time, a member of the quote-unquote fashion committee, no further details provided on that one, friends, but a member from the fashion committee remarked quote,

it will probably be some time before color wigs are part of women's walking attire, but we expect to see them more and more in fashionable salons.

And at the theater, the process of coloring is extremely delicate and this fact makes for costliness only the wealthy will be able to afford a fresh wig for every fresh gown in quote.

Yes, so prized for their high artifice as symbols of status and luxury in one era and conversely derided in others.

For as our guest today has no their associations with disguise and deception, historically the wig has been a repository for not only our fantasies and fears, but also our politics, our professions and so much more.

And today we are so thrilled to welcome fashion historian Jessica Glasscock back to the show to discuss her most recent book, Wigging Out Fake Hair That Made Real History.

In addition to her work as a researcher and education liaison for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for over a decade, Jessica is also the author of several additional fashion history titles, including strip teas from gas light to spotlight and making a spectacle a fashionable history of glasses.

We cannot wait to see what she has in store for us today. Jessica, thanks so much for being here. Welcome back to Dressed.

Jessica, a very warm welcome back to Dressed.

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