Wig out! The bizarre game that lets you create mammoth hairdos

With Design a Wig, you can use feathers, powder and giant ship ornaments to make your own version of the wacky hairstyles people wore in the 18th century. It’s the perfect entry point to the V&A’s scintillating new collection

The V&A is two museums. One is a glittering fashionista hangout where immaculate visitors queue for the latest blockbuster about glam rock or fetish style. The other is a deeply serious and exhaustive collection of art and artefacts from which you can pretty much learn the history of the world, if you have a lifetime to look at them all.

A lovely new wheeze brings the two together. The museum has launched a new online game called Design a Wig. It lets you create your own version of the fantastic – and artificial – hairstyles women wore in the late 18th century. The game tells you how the grand wigs of the Enlightenment were built to massive proportions using horse as well as human hair. “Gooey pastes made from pig fat kept everything in place,” it explains.

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