Episode Details

This season, we tried something a little different. We tried to learn about wigs, this most important accessory and one of the main contributors to our obsession with period film! Join us a we share what we learned through our research and look at some of our favourite wig moments out the 30! movies we have reviewed so far.

Books and websites mentioned:

Book: "Fashions in Hair: the First Five Thousand Years," by Richard Corson Website:

Curationist: "Hair and Makeup in Ancient Egypt"

YouTube: "The Real Reason People From History Wore Powdered Wigs"

Films mentioned:

Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)

Belle (Amma Asante, 2013)

Chevalier (Stephen Williams, 2022)