For many years wigs were worn of the natural colour of the hair, but about 1714 it became customary to have them bleached; this, however, was not found to answer, as they soon turned of a disagreeable shade, so that recourse was had to hair-powder, the use of which soon became general. At the accession of George 1st, it is mentioned that only two ladies wore hair-powder. White perukes were characteristic of the early Georgian era. About the same period we notice that one side only of the wig was frequently tied together into a sort of club which hung down upon the chest in a very lop-sided fashion. A few years later bag-wigs were in vogue; when first introduced in France they were only worn _en déshabille_; in a short time, however, they came to be regarded as the most essential part of the full-dress costume of a beau. The French bag-wig, as it was styled, when it first made its appearance among us, was called in ridicule a fan-tail, and said to resemble the winged cap of Mercury; the women likened the bag-wigs to asses’ ears, and the men retorted by allusion to the horns which were visible in a lady’s head-gear. The _tu quoque_ has ever been the ready argument with both sexes. Follies they have so numberless the store, That only we who love them can have more. In some satirical verses, published 1753, the contour of the wig, set off from the face, is clearly shown: “Let a well-frizzled wig be set off from his face; With a bag quite in taste, from Paris just come, That was made and tied up by Monsieur Frisson; With powder quite grey--then his head is complete;--”