When did people start wearing wigs? Detailed answer

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When did people start wearing wigs?

Did you know that some discovered Egyptian mummies from over 4000 years ago were adorned with wigs? Obviously, for the Egyptians, wigs were familiar. In ancient Greece, both men and women wore them. It is believed that wigs came into use in Persia and then spread to Asia Minor.

In ancient Greece, wigs were also used in the theater so that various masks, comic and tragic, had hair that suited the character.

In Rome, wigs came into use at the dawn of the Empire. Roman fashionistas liked to wear fake hair, and golden hair brought from Germany was the most popular. The women had wigs of various colors to match their outfits, and it is said that the wife of the emperor Marcus Aurelius had several hundred wigs!

In the XNUMXth century, wigs were simply disguised as natural hair. But a hundred years later, wigs have become an important independent part of the costume.

France, as always, acted as the legislator. In 1624, Louis XIII, who was bald, put on a wig, and everyone naturally followed suit.

From France, this fashion spread to Europe. In England, Charles II wore a powdered short wig, and this became popular. During the reign of Queen Anne, wigs were worn that covered the back and shoulders and went down to the chest.

Later, certain types of wigs were worn by members of certain professions, and in time, when wigs fell out of fashion, these people were the only ones who wore them. Gradually, however, doctors, soldiers and priests abandoned this custom. Wigs are worn as part of official dress only in England, and even then only by the Speaker of the House of Commons, high officials of Parliament, the Lord Chancellor, as well as judges and lawyers.

Author: Likum A.

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Everyone knows that birds migrate, that is, at the onset of a certain season, they fly to other lands. But not many people know that butterflies also migrate. An example of this is the burdock butterfly, which travels from Mexico to California every spring. In Europe, the same butterfly species crosses the Mediterranean in spring on its way from Africa to Europe. During migration, thousands, even millions of butterflies appear in the sky.

The most famous of the migratory butterflies is the Danaid butterfly, which winters on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and in other southern regions. In spring, young females lay their eggs on plants that secrete milky juice. The leaves of these plants are fed by caterpillars hatching from eggs.

When the butterflies grow up, they fly away a little to the north. There they mate and lay their eggs on the same plants, which just by that time begin to grow in more northern regions. This is a very curious way of migration, since for several months several generations of Danaid butterflies, replacing each other, travel further north in search of milkweed and related plants.

Thus, in late summer, not those Danaid butterflies that started the journey, but their descendants, get to Canada. When autumn comes and the weather gets cooler, the surviving Danaid butterflies migrate back in large numbers, forming a huge swarm in the sky, stretching for 20 miles. These masses of butterflies migrate year after year, always following the same route.

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