/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>9357774
All these gimmicks are ridiculous. There's one that has a dozen or so mini-cheeseburgers around the edge. They're getting sort of like French pre-Revolution era diorama wigs, with clocks and mausoleums and naval battle scenes sitting on top of womens' hairpieces.

> This mile-high style was launched by king's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, for whom it is named. As author Connie Willis explains in her book "Bellwether," Pompadour inspired the diorama wig craze in which hair was draped over a frame stuffed with cotton wool or straw. This large mass was then cemented with paste, powdered and decorated.
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> Aristocratic women would be seen entering ballrooms wearing pompadours that depicted various scenes. One grieving widow even had a tombstone nestled in her hair to commemorate her late husband. And a 1778 drawing illustrated a woman with a full-blown ship perched on top of her pompadour.

http://www.gaslampantiques.com/magazine/features.php?article=290