Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'The Five Orders of Perriwigs' NPG D21370

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Hogarth

Wigs dominated male costume from half way through the seventeenth century until the 1790s. The 'fullbottomed' wigs worn by the Kit-Cats were made of curled and frizzed human hair sewn into net caps. Such expensive items displayed the wearer's wealth and status as they needed daily combing and powdering by a barber or valet. Fashions in wigs changed over time. As men shaved their heads, when at home they swapped their wigs for soft caps. Being painted wearing a 'nightcap' was the height of confident... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.