subject: Hairdressing: How It Began [print this page] By the turn of the nineteenth century, this taste for sophisticated and highly structured wigs was on the decline, partly due to a tax on hair powder! Once again ladies and their maids took responsibility for their own hairdressing. And in the twentieth century, hairdressing salons arrived and women everywhere were happy to frequent them and let others wash, cut and dress their hair in the latest styles.
