September 11, 2025
"I think what you look like is a standard poodle and I love standard poodles."
A model for a perfect husband, revealed in "My cool cancer story/A year after losing my hair and self image to cancer, I put on my $5,000 prescription wig and look at myself and say, 'THERE she is.'" (WaPo video, free access).
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A canine model is an unflattering analogy.
She paid $5000 for a "prescription" wig (WTF does that mean?) and it makes her look more canine than human.
Somebody got badly taken, and wasn't the recipient of that 5000 bucks.
As the video shows, another thing to do...
"Read the funny papers."
I had no idea that oncologists are prescribing wigs. If that's true, they need to stop. But then, 21st-century medical ethics is a sick joke anyway, so why not bilk cancer victims with bulging bank accounts? That's what insurance is for, isn't it, to transfer the costs and social burdens of thievery to the white working class?
With the poodle reference, I thought it was going to be a curly wig and was getting ready to cite the Little Orphan Annie song. Disappointing to see it's a pretty standard long style. JSM
"She paid $5000 for a "prescription" wig (WTF does that mean?) and it makes her look more canine than human."
You need to watch the video.
Years ago, I purchased several wigs theatrical wigs for a production of Sheridan's The Rivals. I bought good ones, much better than those nasty cotton tops you might see perched on a "George Washington" at a Fourth of July event. I also hired a wig stylist to make each one distinctive. ("Fighting Bob" Acres looked splendidly ridiculous with his yarned-up side curls.) All told, I got seven custom-styled wigs and perruques for a grand and change. Not real hair, but quite nice synthetic, and authentically powdered.
Consequently, that $5000 wig stuck in my skeptical craw. Having no experience with natural hair wigs, I looked up this site. Three thousand bucks for the best. So what does the extra two grand buy, besides a four-star dinner for two sans vin?
Quaestor said...
“So what does the extra two grand buy, besides a four-star dinner for two sans vin?”
Exclusivity.
It's not really free. the pop up asks for info and a credit cad.
Cannot get past the pop-up
Having watched the video, I'm still in the dark regarding prescription wigs. The hairpiece looks fine, but invokes nothing poodle-like. Afghan hound or saluki, yes. Poodle, standard or otherwise, no.
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