Word: wigged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Change, It's Wonderful. Heady from a 500% increase in its wig, toupee and false-hairpiece business, the Manhattan concern of Joseph Fleischer & Co. took an understandable position: "We are for a woman changing her hair as frequently as she changes her costumes." Only hair bought from European women, said Fleischer experts, has the quality necessary for good chignons. The hair of Orientals is too dark and coarse; the hair...
...have watched the Freshmen start out waving their caps to the singing of the Red and Blue in unison with the rest of the students, only to wind up out of cadence. Now, it doesn't seem too much to ask men of college calibre to make a simple wig-wag motion with the arm in time with everybody else--especially with the cheer leaders standing right in front of them...
...still-missing jewels, she would wait and hope for their recovery by the police. The Comtesse de La Rochefoucauld allowed herself only one comment about the faithless Comtesse de Marliave: "To see her ride at the horse shows, who would have thought that she wore a wig...
Jane Wyman in a blonde wig also realizes only a fraction of the pathetic character she plays. Actors Kennedy and Douglas give polished performances, but they swim against the tide...
...European concentration camps have been filtering in, bringing the dress, customs and fears of the Old World's Orthodox Jews. Synagogues stand on almost every corner; the streets are full of men with long beards and skullcaps; store signs are written in Hebrew, and their clerks speak Yiddish. Wig salons thrive-many women shave their heads, according to Orthodox custom...