Wordie: Peruke: Comments

Comment by yarb, 2 months ago

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:03:47 +0000

He could not help remarking, that the gentleman's correspondence must be unusually voluminous, when Aurora's features all at once assumed the broader contour of a laugh, with a delightfully provoking question to Don Lewis -- Is it possible that love can be so blind as not to detect the glaring imposition by which it has been deluded? Has my real self made so faint an impression on your senses, that a flaxen peruke and a pencilled eyebrow could carry the farce to such a height as this?

- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 4 ch. 6

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Tue, 29 May 2007 11:12:22 +0000

And with that, my friend, you've inspired a new list.

Edit: which, upon inspection, has already been made. A couple times. Won't let that stop me though.

Comment by trivet, about 1 year ago

Tue, 29 May 2007 10:21:56 +0000

I don't know - the masses seem to have an unholy fondness for the toupee and the combover.

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Tue, 29 May 2007 10:15:15 +0000

This is a style that needs to be revived. I wonder what it would take to bring it back, or if the masses are just too cynical these days.

wig / from wiki:

Tue, 29 May 2007 10:05:23 +0000

Also known as a periwig, the peruke was popular during the 1600s and 1700s. It is currently worn by British Judges, although now only on ceremonial occasions. The wearing of the peruke was made fashionable by King Louis XIV of France. In the 1650s he began hiring wigmakers wearing full wigs, perhaps to cover his own accelerating baldness. Soon, in imitation of the king, the courtiers began wearing perukes a badge of honor. It was adopted by the future English King Charles II and his court, who brought the fashion to England when he was restored to the throne in 1660. In part, the peruke was a reaction to the close-cropped hair of the Puritans (so-called Roundheads). After King Louis's death in 1715, the massive peruque went out of fshion and was gradually replaced by smaller wigs.