Preposterous Headdresses And Feathered Ladies: Hair, Wigs, Barbers, And Hairdressers

In the second half of the eighteenth century the hair of the fashionable world in England soared to new heights. The Lewis Walpole Library has a selection of prints focused on hair and wigs, and on the hairdressers and barbers who created and tended them.

These images of 'preposterous' hairstyles give evidence of the increased economic prosperity that made possible such extreme fashions as well as the luxury goods necessary to them.

(via Everlasting Blort)