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| In Today�s extensions and wigs can be compared to that of the structures of the fontange, and built up styles of the 1800�s in the ways that they are worn in the idea of enhancing the wearers physical appearance. Also, both women in modern day and the 1800�s both wore wigs, the only differences being that wigs of today are no longer being powdered for colour or worn as a status symbol. Wigs today are still being made from human hair, as they were in the 1800�s but they are also made from fine synthetic fibers, and are shaped in any style, or colour imaginable. See figure 14 for examples of just some of the possibilities of wig colours. Wigs of the 1800�s seemed to be of limited styles, mainly all curly and made of only of natural hair sources, which left for a limited amount of colour choices. |
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| Figure 14: Revlon Fantasy Funky Color Wigs Made of Synthetic Hair � Wigs are made of any colour imaginable in times today and are not restricted to the natural colours of the 1800�s |
| When looking at extensions, both women of today and the 1800 have worn some sort of an extension. The only difference between the two would be, that the extensions of the 1800�s were built up (see figure 4) to sometime incredible heights, whereas the extensions of today extend downwards, in order to make the hair longer then the natural hair length. So in conclusion, it is certain that hairstyles have changed over the centuries, but to the extent is not as noticed as it possibly should be. It has not nearly changed as much we all think, for there are still many elements in which we all take from the 1800�s and other eras and incorporate them into our modern hairstyles. By no means will the massive towers of white powdered wigs return to fashion quite in the way they did in the 1800�s but it is inevitable that something from the hairstyles of this period will surface again in the future. |