Orthodox leaders are increasingly policing the length of women’s wigs. One women was even prevented from buying a house in Lakewood.
A wig that looks totally natural is exorbitantly expensive.
This is the frum version of “slut shaming”: Woman, your rabbinically mandated headcovering is really “asking for it.” So tone it down.
But good luck taking on the $1 billion human-hair industry.
Everything you ever wanted to know about religious Jewish wigs, but were too afraid to ask. Frimet Goldberger breaks down what each wig means for the woman who wears it.
Everything you ever wanted to know about religious Jewish wigs, but were too afraid to ask. Frimet Goldberger breaks down what each wig means for the woman who wears it.
A robocall made to Orthodox homes in the Lakewood, N.J. area admonished women to cut their wigs, claiming that they could prevent unnamed tragedies by donning cropped sheitels.
The export of human hair from Cambodia has massively expanded — and Orthodox Jewish women represent an important portion of the clientele.
“Do you like the blond better? With or without the ponytail?”
Walk down Cedar Lane in the heavily Orthodox enclave of Teaneck, N.J. and she beckons you to come hither — with her long, luxurious locks and feathery bangs coquettishly hiding her eyes. This is seduction on the street or, rather, in the shop window. The mannequins in the wig shop have some of the sexiest hair in Bergen County, N.J.