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[QUOTE]Originally posted by IronLion: [QB] So so pathetic and ignorant. Yo pink girl, did you ever hear that Roman men and women used to wear wigs made from blond hair of the Goths and dark hair of the Indias? You prolly never heard about Julia Domna the black Syrian wife of Septimus Severus who loved wearing straight wigs? Most of those straight hair statutes you see were sporting wigs. Because the Romans, both men and women were notorious for wearing wigs. You know what else the Romans invented? BLEACHING CREAM! For themselves to use! I will help you again dummy: Severan dynasty and fake Wigs Julia Domna, wife of Septimus Severus, had a particularly notable hairstyle. She wore a heavy, globular wig with simple finger-sized waves with a simple center parting. Julia Domna was from Syria, and it has been suggested that her style was indicative of her foreign origi Romans and Straight Hair Wigs Due to the nature of hair and the relatively wet climate in the upper reaches of the Empire, there are very few examples of wigs that survive to this day. We do know that women wore wigs whether they were bald or not. So too did men, Emperor Otho wore a wig, as did Domitian.[10] Wigs allowed women to better achieve the kind of 'tall' styles that particularly punctuated the Flavian and Trajanic eras (e.g. the periods of 69-96 and 98-117 CE). In fact, so tall were these hairstyles, that ancient writer Juvenal likens them to multi-storey buildings. So important is the business of beautification; so numerous are the tiers and storeys piled one upon another on her head! —Juvenal, Satires[11] Wigs were made from human hair; blonde hair from Germany and black from India were particularly prized, especially if the hair came from the head of a person from a conquered civilisation[12]. In the cases where wigs were used to hide baldness, a natural look was preferred supposedly using a wig with a hair colour similar to the user's original. But in instances where a wig was worn for the purpose of showing off, naturalism did not play much of a part. In fact, obviously fake wigs were preferred, sometimes intertwined with two contrasting hair colours. Detachable Bust Wigs: Busts themselves could have detachable wigs. There have been many suggestions as to why some busts have been created with detachable wigs and some without. Perhaps the main reason was to keep the bust looking up-to-date. It would have been too expensive to commission a new bust every time hair fashion changed, so a mix-and-match bust would have been preferable for women with less money. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_hairstyles [/QB][/QUOTE]
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