Curly hair of foreigners in the teens

As early as the ancient Egyptian era, the ancient Egyptian men at that time had to shave their heads, all face and wear a wig. Later the ancient Romans were also influenced by the Egyptians, also keen to wear wigs. However, the most impressive people have to say is popular in modern Europe wigs, its origin is also quite interesting. That is to say, in the early seventeenth century in France, the reigning king's name is Louis XIII (Louis XIII). Although he was the king of the country, but a bald. In order to hide this defect, he began to wear a long shoulder-length wig. As the saying goes, what goes up must come down. A moment the whole of France began to popularize this latest jewelry. As France was the fashion leader in Europe at the time, this wig style quickly became popular throughout Europe.

Early wigs were made of human hair, such as debtor's hair, dead people's hair. This state of affairs did not end until 1822 when Humphrey Ravenscroft invented the process of making wigs using ponytails. For a long time, the raw material used in this wig horsehair came from China, because the mane of European horses is not easy to weave and easy to break, and the mane in the production process and need to be constantly bleached and cleaned, and only the Chinese horse produced by the mane can go through these tests.

The wig although because of its aristocratic temperament and the European continent in the scenery for a while, but the success is also Xiao He, defeat is also Xiao He. Because it is a royal product, later in the French Revolution finally also fell into a "broken four old" end. The Bourbon dynasty invented the wig finally with Louis XVI (Louis Χ VI) head together by the guillotine cut off.

We see today's European wigs are more related to the United Kingdom, especially with the British judicial system is very relevant. There are two reasons for this. First, the United Kingdom dominated the world for nearly two hundred years, with a huge colonial system known as the Sun-Never-Setting Empire (The Sun-Never-Setting Empire), resulting in a huge impact on the world's culture. Secondly, Britain has a constitutional monarchy, which allows the wig, a feudal antique, to be preserved in the system. And how did the British wigs flow in from France? This has to be said from the beginning of modern world history - the British bourgeois revolution. As we know, the bourgeois revolution broke out in Britain in the middle of the 17th century, and the Prince of England at that time, who was later Charles II, was forced to take refuge in France, and after he succeeded in his restoration, he brought the fashion of wigs back to Britain. The diary of Samuel Pepys, a seventeenth-century Englishman, truly records the history of the wig's popularity in England. On November 2, 1663, Pepys wrote: "It is still a little sad to say goodbye to my own hair, but it is all over, and I am going to wear a wig." (he cut off my haire). (he cut off my haire , which went a little to my heart at present to part with it ; but, it being over, and my periwigg on)

There is another palimpsest of wigs in British political history. After the Glorious Revolution, Britain began to enter the stage of party politics. At that time, there were two major parties, one said the Whigs (Whigs), one said the Tories (Tories). Generally speaking, the Whigs were radical and the Tories were conservative. The two parties fought each other until later. Whether or not to wear a wig has also become a manifestation of political attitude. It goes without saying that those who wore wigs must be Tories and those who did not must be Whigs. This is somewhat similar to the attitude of the revolutionaries and the royalists towards the braid when the Qing Dynasty fell. The novelist Jonathan Swift satirized this situation in his masterpiece 〈〈Gulliver's Travels〉〉(Gulliver's Travels), with a story about the domestic politics of Lilliput, a small country: "For more than seventy months there have been two great parties in the empire at loggerheads with each other, one called the Tories, the other called the Slavs, and the other called the Whigs. Mike III, and the other party was called Sla Mike III. Because one party has a higher heel and the other has a lower heel, the two parties have been divided according to the height of the heel."

Generally speaking, there are two types of European wigs. One is a long wig that is long enough to be worn over the shoulders, that is, the original invented by Louis XIII, generally periwig in English, which is generally used for grand events and ceremonial occasions, for example, members of the House of Lords at the opening ceremony of the British Parliament wore long wigs. A kind of short wig that only covers the top of the head, is worn in the usual courtroom, English is generally wig. we are generally familiar with the latter.

The wigs used in the judiciary are different from ordinary wigs, not least because they are expensive. The average wig for a judge costs more than ￡1,500, while the most common wig, not less than ￡300. London, Britain's oldest judicial clothing store "Ed and Ravenscroft" (E& R) produced a shawl curls wig price is up to 4,000 U.S. dollars or more.

The most important feature of the judicial wig is that it takes pride in being old, and the older the wig is, the older the wearer is in terms of seniority and age. Since seniority and age are a treasure in the judicial world. So the older the wig the easier it is to get the favor of the legal profession. One lawyer's family has a wig that is 94 years old and has been passed down for four generations, making it a family heirloom.

Although fake hair is still widely used in the British judiciary, its status is already precarious. As early as the founding of the United States, then President Thomas Jefferson (Thomas Jefferson) was quite dissatisfied with the wig as a feudal relic, and he had this to say: "The English judges after the wig is removed are like rats peeping out from underneath the cotton wool." (For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum) So even though the United States belongs to the same law of the sea system as Britain, it abolished the wig-wearing system for the judiciary at the very beginning of the country. So even though the United States is a member of the same law of the sea as the United Kingdom, the United States abolished the wig-wearing system of the judiciary at the beginning of its existence to show that it was clear.

In Britain, the home of wig-wearing, the wig system is also in decline. As early as 1840, the British judiciary eliminated shoulder-length wigs in favor of shorter and simpler wigs, and in 1992 eliminated the practice of wearing wigs for judicial officers in special juvenile courts. This year, the British Judicial Council even announced on July 12, the future of civil court sessions, judges and lawyers can not wear a wig, but in the criminal court generally still have to wear.

The main reason why Britain's wig system has fallen to this state is the high price of wigs. Wig-free, the United Kingdom for judges and registered lawyers, "clothing costs" can save 600,000 pounds a year. In addition, the decline of the wig is also a major reason for the decline of the popularity of the wig. A poll conducted in 2003 showed that nearly 70 percent of Britons thought the wig system should be abolished in Britain.

Just as the sun is setting on the former Sunset Empire, perhaps in the near future, this ancient legacy of the British Empire will finally and officially go into history.