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Wigs, fashion, and the hair-powder tax

Hyacinthe Rigaud, *Portrait of Louis XIV* (1701). Wikimedia Commons; public domain. Original file: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rigaud_Louis_XIV_1701.jpg. Reused from the related Watt fact 2060.
Peter Lely, *Charles II of England*. Wikimedia Commons; public domain. Original file: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lely_Charles_II_of_England.jpg. Reused from the related Watt fact 2060.
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Hyacinthe Rigaud, *Portrait of Louis XIV* (1701). Wikimedia Commons; public domain. Original file: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rigaud_Louis_XIV_1701.jpg. Reused from the related Watt fact 2060.

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In the seventeenth century, French king Louis XIV popularized large wigs at court; English king Charles II also wore one as his hair began to turn gray. In 1795 Britain introduced an annual tax of one guinea on using hair powder; it was not a permit reserved only for high-ranking officials.