By the 1700s, wigs were fashionable for men too. However, the Hair Powder Tax of 1795, a levy introduced to help foot the bill for the Napoleonic wars, was considered too pricey.

In fact, if a barrister were to turn up to court wearing a wig before the 1700s, they would be breaking the dress code as the expected style up to this point was for lawyers to have clean, ...

But researchers at Trinity College Dublin, delved further into the would-be-president's colourful past to find his sixth great granduncle was a prominent Dublin businessman in the 1700s. Wig-maker ...