Get Wiggy Wit It!

[Happy-Hangman]

I lost a bet, today. About what isn't really the issue, save that it's something I was terribly certain of...and utterly wrong, to boot. The incident is of note because it provides a couthy moral rejoinder concerning over-confidence, and the perils of making wagers without considering the consequences.

It also meant that, having lost the bet, I had a forfeit to pay. I had to spend the day, enduring the daily drudge, in a syrup.

Now, I am no stranger to wearing hairpieces professionally. I have a number of 'em - from a curly Charles II Restoration piece (the 'Brian May'), and a powdered pompadour to bald-caps (don't tend to need that one much, these days) and my Severus Snape bob. Beards, 'taches, sideburns and eyebrow extensions...I have all manner of oddities in my wardrobe. In character, though, is different from in life.

In life I have been in the habit - like many follically challenged chaps who don't like the patchwork-fuzz of MPB - of shaving my head on a regular basis. I'm used to being a slap-head. I'd much rather yield gracefully to baldness, and expedite the process with a razor, than look as though I have found a new use for roadkill. I know many men feel vulnerable without hill - the Samson Complex, I think it's called - but I'm not one of them. I buff my nut with pride! Thankfully I wasn't challenged with wearing one of the more flamboyant rugs as I walked around Tesco and paid my gas bill at the Post Office. I was stuck with this one:



Not very nice, but...well, there are far worse being worn on the street regularly by people who really should be asked 'are you wearing that thing for a bet?'

What surprised me was that...no-one commented at all.

Now, they may have been being polite. They may have kept a straight face until I was out of earshot and then laughed their arses off. Or they may simply have been baffled by my losing my mind and gaining a dead hamster. Posting the picture on Facebook, later in the day, I was told that it made me look younger (which I doubt), and by another (while sporting the 'Brian May') that I looked like 'Billy Conolly's stunt double'. Why did no one else comment? Who knows.

So, the experience warns me to keep my mouth shut when I think I'm sure about something - but still raises the question, why did no-one comment - people in Stirling see me in stranger outfits all the time, after all - and, of course, why do men Get Wiggy Wit It, at all?

[Beaker]

To be fair, I've seen a lot worse out there.....that one just makes you look like David Langford. )

[Trumpetmike]

There are certainly worse wigs you could have been pictured in
(my profile pic for starters)

[Happy-Hangman]

Like this one, you mean?



or this one?

[jumpin' jellybean]

Holy guacamole. You actually do bear a passing resemblance to the Big Yin in the Charles II wig.

[Paulky]

Like your good self, I've been bald for years, and happily so. I can't see why men think it preferable to wear some awful toupee (usually ginger). Sadly, my eldest brother does wear one, whilst my other brothers have all followed the same route as me, and just let nature take its course. I think even if a "cure" for baldness appeared tomorrow, I wouldn't bother; it's so much more convenient to be bald!

[Happy-Hangman]

Convenience is, of course, an issue - a scrape with a razor every couple of days, and I'm done, and I don't have the cost or embarrassment of trying to get a barber to do something inventive with nothing much to work with.

My problem with wigs on bald men is that they are, with very few exceptions, obviously wigs - and, therefore, draw attention to the baldness (and vanity) of the wearer, rather than concealing it. Wigs can even look worse than that great horrors of the deluding baldy-man, the 'comb over' (as abominably sported by the equally awful Donald Trump) and the 'implant'.

I mean, for those unexpectedly suffering baldness through illness or conditions such as Trichitillomania, yes, wigs obviously have a purpose, but with those experiencing Male Pattern Baldness...it just looks fairly desperate.

Originally Posted by jumpin' jellybean

Holy guacamole. You actually do bear a passing resemblance to the Big Yin in the Charles II wig.

I don't see it, personally.



Mind you, someone 'round here said I looked like Dara Obrien not so long ago, and he looks like neither The Big Yin or me.

[kahless]

Originally Posted by Happy-Hangman

I look at that and see Jimmy Hill! Agreed you are channelling the Big Yin with the curly wig on.

Regarding the question, if I ever started to loose my hair I'd just shave it off. Can't be arsed with disguising the fact of what's happening. Same way I've been grey pretty much since my mid/late 20s, never bothered to dye it, what's the point.

[Selkie]

*lacks even regular guacamole with which to make an exclamation* I do think our beloved lady JJ was spot on with her judgement of the hangyman all the same ^.~

I fondly recalls the days of having mine own long flowing locks - behold! (taken back in '97 - 'twas already thinning even then <_>)...



...but, having since acquired a level of hairiness comparable to HH and wishing not to resemble Lt Ilia I needs must employ to the cunning artifice of the wig maker... still, it doth mean I can more swiftly change style and colour to suit an outfit or occasion than most girls I know ^.^



anybody clicking on that faceybook link below will readily note that I has no qualms about exposing my shiny cranium as a boy though ^_~

[SoulBroken]

HH I didn't notice your FB post..now I will have to go look, and comment and yes you do have a certain resemblance to a mad Scottish man.. It's actually made me smile and i feel much better now...
Plus your rug you wore around the street wasn't too bad not as ..hairy ..as some others i've seen ..lol

Selkie, you always look beautiful whatever hair colour or style you choose I have a beautiful pink wig and am going to get others for ..costuming up