what's with the powdered wigs?

  Saw Amadeus yesterday and I was wondering? Throughout history all the great thinkers and writers and historians always had a powered wig on their head when they were doing important things like signing the declaration of the independence or what not.

  I always asked myself...were they ashamed of their own hair or was it something that was obligated?


If was a male in that time period or a female, I doubt I would want to wear a wig, why? I would be uncomfortable first off as well as not to by style. What did their hair look like back then?

Who knows. I read George Washington was a red head and wore a wig most of his presidential life. Guess he never wanted people to know he was a red head.

The powdered wig style went out eventually but was popular at the time of Wolfgang Mozart who sadly died young and the movie Amadeus did an amazing portrait of it.

   F. Murray Abraham portrait Salieri and explained the madness he went through helping Wolfgang Mozart with his music while his went unnoticed. Suddenly going into sudden maddens and explaining to a priest what happened through his life to make him how he is.

   Although it was never as true as it was to life. Salieri and Mozart weren't really enemies and yes Mozart died very young but they never hated each other. They enjoyed the way their music was and how it sounded.
   Not going into madness at the end.
Thomas Hulche did an amazing job as Mozart and F. Murray Abraham had to learn how to play classical music before becoming Salieri.

 And the powdered wigs, was the style of the 17 and 1800's but it seemed not to have lasted long. The women wore powdered wigs yes; however, they also had interesting hair styles.

   There was another style of hair called Frontage hairstyle that was more for women that was popular that did not need powdered wigs, cutting their short and making it look as if they are wearing a wig but they use heavy curlers.

   Hairstyles come and go, but the powered wig style is one that is very known to be glad to be gone for good. If it ever did come back, it would only be for movie roles that took place in the past around that era of the early presidential of George Washington or Thomas Jefferson.
Amadeus was one of them. Bringing back a talented composer Wolfgang Mozart. Thank you. He would be smiling in the skies tonight like he did when it came out in 1984.

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