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Feb 25 2010 12 Comments

Wig wonder

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.

Japanese wig and fake beard

Categorized: Odd

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  1. Karasu says

    2/25/2010 at 5:44 pm

    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.

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  2. Abe Lincoln says

    2/25/2010 at 7:22 pm

    Hahaha! A beard that looks likes its straight from a joke shop that costs 52,000 yen!

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  3. Court says

    2/26/2010 at 1:18 am

    I guess for those days when you shave TOO close, there’s a pack of matching eyebrows thrown in!

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  4. phossil says

    2/26/2010 at 2:59 am

    they are made of syntethic fiber right?

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    • Lee says

      2/26/2010 at 11:01 am

      I reckon so. Molded plastic by the looks of them!

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    • Peter says

      4/7/2010 at 7:38 pm

      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).

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  5. eric says

    2/26/2010 at 5:18 am

    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?

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    • Lee says

      2/26/2010 at 11:04 am

      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.

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  6. Tornadoes28 says

    2/26/2010 at 11:50 am

    That must be the beard must be from the Lincoln line of beards.

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    • Tornadoes28 says

      2/26/2010 at 11:50 am

      I meant to say “That beard must be from the Lincoln line of beards.

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  7. Chidori-chan says

    2/28/2010 at 2:35 am

    Not to ruin the fun, but aren’t these for stage use? All the photos in the display would indicate so.

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  8. Adam says

    3/2/2010 at 2:19 am

    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?

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