Why did the president back in the day wear those white hair pieces?

The wig became a distinctive class symbol for more than a century. In the 17th century it attained its maximum development, covering the back and shoulders and flowing down the chest. During the same century, women also wore wigs, though less often than did men. Certain professions established specific wigs as part of their official costume; the practice is retained today only in some legal systems, notably that of the United Kingdom. Men's wigs in various forms were worn throughout the West in the 18th century, until the French and American revolutions swept away these and other symbols of social status.

Why did the president back in the day wear those white hair pieces?

Because all the important men did.

Why did the president back in the day wear those white hair pieces?

It was considered fashionable in the late 1700's and early 1800's to wear them. They might have wanted to resemble a judge or royalty (both French and English monarchs sported them). In that time, a person who wore them look old and wise, wise being the key word. :-)

Why did the president back in the day wear those white hair pieces?

That was the style back then. Like blue jeans are now. People a hundred years from now will probably think that blue jeans are totally weird

Why did the president back in the day wear those white hair pieces?

It's like a fashion hat wear.

Why did the president back in the day wear those white hair pieces?

Wigs were fashionable and the US had not yet broken the fashion ties to England and Europe. There were some younger radicals who didn't wear wigs (Patrick Henry, Paul Revere, and Thomas Jefferson), but the older generation still did.

Be glad that wig wearing only lasted until around 1820. Knee breeches remained in style until 1840 in proper circles.

Why did the president back in the day wear those white hair pieces?

As everyone already has said -- that was the fashion when Washington, etc. were president. It's like the way we wear business suits and neckties today.

As I understand it, the whole fashion for elaborate wigs started when King Louis XIV of France started losing his hair. He wore wigs, and his courtiers followed him . . . and since most of Europe looked to France as the center of fashion, the wig-wearing spread.

So wigs - because they were expensive and difficult to maintain - were a status symbol for at least a century. Sort of like designer clothes are today . . . The era of high-fashion wigs for men ended about the time of the first American presidents.

Why did the president back in the day wear those white hair pieces?

my theory someone had a bad hair day....everyday and invented the whig.....and he was prob. popular and everyone else wanted to be like him and before you know it everyones doin it!.........actually it wasn't started in America....Europe