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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Are family traditions meaningless?

   Yesterday was Thanksgiving and so many people ate dinner, and watched football or the parade or the dog show (a greyhound won this year)

    Sometimes, traditions can mean more than that. It can mean being with family and spending a lot of time together.
   Traditions are different with family, from cultures or tv shows, sometimes it can be as simple as one person celebrating by themselves.

   Our traditions in Thanksgiving are very different. For some families, they would go visit their spouse or go to a restaurant and eat a turkey, but we, every single year, we are doing the turkey, the stuffing, the green beans, mashed potatoes and carrots.

    We get up early and I used to get hyped up watching the 'what they used to be called Boscov's' but now called Dunkin Donuts Thanksgiving Day Parade in Philly. My cousins and the three boys go there and have fun.
   This year wasn't much of  an amazing show. They had been around for 97 years.

   We used to eat late at night around five or six o'clock but ever since my late aunt passed away, we've been eating a little earlier and we like it.

  

  Some people don't mind eating early so they can digest their food and maybe later have some pie. We are big pie people in the family. I don't like pie. I'd rather a nice slice of cake and this year, we did something different going to Longwood Gardens.

   It was enjoyable.

  But as I was saying does it mean traditions are meaningless if they are changed? Do old traditions die out?

    No it doesn't mean that all. It just means there's something new to desire. A new tradition is born weather it's on Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Years.

    

      Our Traditions remain a tradition for a reason, to be with family, to be there for one another through hard times and knowing one day won't hurt if you spend it with the ones you really love.

    Traditions are never meaningless. And Christmas, I think they have a special meaning in all our hearts, even it has been becoming more commercial lately and closer as well.

    With Christmas inching around the corner, their traditions are the most special of them all and I'm not going to let any holiday commercials or 'Black Friday' psychos who love to shop right after they eat their turkey. For me family comes first. Holiday traditions will never die for me. Till then enjoy your family traditions no matter what Holiday it is.

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