The French King Louis XIII lost his hair already as a young man. During his reign, the Allonge wig for men was invented and became a significant part for each garment. At this time, hairpieces were generally produced from human or possibly animal hair. An enrichment to everything about hair fashion after 1670 was the well-known hairstyle ?¡ì?¨¨ la Fontange, named after a mistress of King Louis XIV countless variations using the classic were created with the aid of hairpieces and false locks.

The eighteenth century, also known as Rococo, was the flowering time period of hair pieces. Wigs gained enormously in importance and were adopted as the status symbol by both ladies and men. Specially from 1750 to 1780 hairstylists experienced a hard task to try and do arranging several of the woman hairpieces to a height of 90. Hairpieces were once again put on all-around 1820 [Biedermeier] and really enjoyed goodpopularity.

The ownhair was tightly arranged within the head and artistic hair-styles were created with side locks and flower like hair loops. At the beginning of the 20 th century increasingly more freely arranged hair pieces were used. With the introduction of short haircuts about 1920 this trend literaly disappeared over night. Within the 60's hairpieces gained again in importance and the wearing of wigs became almost essential. Know more about real hair wigs , wigs uk and more, Please go to: https://www.yneed.co.uk/

Hair pieces were not only sold in specialized shops but in every shopping area. This strong demand led especially in Asia [South Korea] to an industrialization of the wig production. In this boom days of the wig, intensive research was done in the area of synthetic hair production. Research departments were successful and in a relatively short time good quality synthetic hair was available on the market.Since then, the wearing of wigs and hair pieces has lost it's importance.