Using a variety of ingenious tricks, women made their real hair look like that—and they ... colleagues explain exactly how women in the 18th century tamed their tresses. Like many of the ...

For the real 18th-century women who wore such styles, the process of having one's hair made up might not be described in quite those terms. Wigs first became popular for men, not women.

The late 18th century ushered in a more civilized approach to hair removal. While European and American women didn’t take too much consideration into it, Jean Jacques Perret, a French barber ...