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He forbade, we are told,
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Diary contains much interesting information concerning wigs. Under date of 2nd November, 1663, he writes:
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I heard the Duke say that he was going to wear a periwig, and says the King also will. I never till this day observed that the King is mighty gray.
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Diary to one of his visits to his hairdresser, Pepys says,
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I did try two or three borders and periwigs, meaning to wear one, and yet I have no stomach for it; but that the pains of keeping my hair clean is great. He trimmed me, and at last I parted, but my mind was almost altered from my first purpose, from the trouble which I foresee in wearing them also. Weeks passed before he could make up his mind to wear a wig. Mrs Pepys was taken to the periwig-maker's shop to see the one made for Mr Pepys, and expressed her satisfaction on seeing it. We read of the wig being at Jervas's under repair in April 1665. Early in May, Pepys writes in his
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Diary, that he suffered his hair to grow long, in order to wear it; but he said,
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I will have it cut off all short again, and will keep to periwigs. Later, under date of September 3rd, he writes:
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Lord's day. Up; and put on my coloured silk suit, very fine, and my new periwig, bought a good while since, but durst not wear, because the plague was in Westminster when I bought it; and it is a wonder what will be in fashion, after the plague is done, as to periwigs, for nobody will dare to buy any hair, for fear of the infection, that it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague.
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Diary for June 11th, 1666, that ladies, in addition to assuming masculine costume for riding, wore long wigs.
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Walking in the galleries at Whitehall, observes Mr Pepys,
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I find the ladies of honour dressed in their riding garbs, with coats and doublets with deep skirts, just for all the world like mine, and buttoned their doublets up the breast, with periwigs and with hats, so that, only for long petticoats dragging under their men's coats, nobody could take them for women in any point whatever.