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Title: Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911
Subjects: Clothing and dress
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company London, Macmillan & co., ltd.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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of GeorgeII other forms of wigs and other titles; the mostpopular was the pigtail wig. The pigtail of this wasworn hanging down the back or tied up in a knotbehind. This pigtail wig, worn for so many years,is shown on page 340. It was popular in the armyfor sixty years, but in 1804 orders were given for thepigtail to be reduced to seven inches in length, andfinally, in 1808, to be cut off wholly, to the deepmourning of disciplinarians who deemed a soldierwithout a pigtail as hopeless as a Manx cat. Bob-wigs, minor and major, came in during thereign of George II. The bob-wig was held to be adirect imitation of the natural hair, though, of course,it deceived no one ; it was used chiefly by poorerfolk. The prentice minor bob was close and short,the citizens bob major, or Sunday buckle, had sev-eral rows of curls. All these came to America bythe hundreds — yes, by the thousands. Every pro-fession and almost every calling had its peculiarwig. The caricatures of the period represent full-
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King Carter. Died 1732. Perukes and Periwigs 337 fledged lawyers with a towering frontlet and a longbag at the back tied in the middle ; while studentsof the university have awig flat on the top, toaccommodate their stiff,square - cornered hats,and a great bag like alawyers wig at the back. When the law laysdown its full-bottomdperiwig you will findless wisdom in bald patesthan you are aware of,says the Choleric Man.This lawyers wig is theonly one which has notbeen changed or aban-doned. You may seeit here, on the head of Judge Benjamin Lynde ofSalem. He died in 1745. Carlyle sneers : — Has not your Red hanging-individual a horsehair wig,squirrel-skins, and a plush-gown — whereby all Mortalsknow that he is a JUDGE ? In the reigns of Anne and William and Maryperukes grew so vast and cumbersome that a wigwas invented for travelling and for undress wear, andwas called the Campaign wig. It would not seemvery simple since it was made full and curled to thefront, and had, so writes a co

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