Wigs, and especially woeful ones, are more than easy targets for merriment to say the least; however, whilst it might well be easy to insist that, finding oneself half hairless, it’d be a simple procedure of unceremoniously shaving it all off and coming over all Kojak, for those with cauliflower ears or unusually contoured craniums, a toupee at least must surely be a tad tempting.
But such understandable contemplations aside, it’s baffling in the extreme to imagine what kind of bloke could possibly consider complementing a man-made fibre bouffant with an equally fake beard.
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Perhaps they’re there in case any amish visit Japan? Oh wait… they don’t believe in buttons, I don’t think they’re going to think that man made fibers are any less devil-borne.
Hahaha! A beard that looks likes its straight from a joke shop that costs 52,000 yen!
I guess for those days when you shave TOO close, there’s a pack of matching eyebrows thrown in!
they are made of syntethic fiber right?
I reckon so. Molded plastic by the looks of them!
If i see that correctly, the wig on the upper right that looks like taken straight away from Captain Ahab has a price tag of 136’000 JPY / ~ 1100 €. Seeing that, i would presume those wigs are made from real human hair, as the synthetic ones can be bought rather cheap usually (usually far below 100 € per piece).
I marveled at the number of syrups I saw during a mere week in Tokyo this December past. Is there an unusually strong social stigma against slapheads?
I’m not sure there’s a stigma as such Eric, but with relatively few — at least compared to my native Britain — men going bald in Japan, those that do have a tendency to stand out somewhat. Although obviously it could be argued that a bad wig stands out even more.
That must be the beard must be from the Lincoln line of beards.
I meant to say “That beard must be from the Lincoln line of beards.
Not to ruin the fun, but aren’t these for stage use? All the photos in the display would indicate so.
I love the Japanese “bar code.” I have seen some spectacular ones in my day. Why buy a wig when the four strands of hair you still have can be curled around and around in a simulation of a full head of hair?