Still Going Strong

Wig Maker

Paul Margolis

Citation

Margolis, Paul. “Still Going Strong: Wig Maker.” New York Folklore, vol. 35: 1-2, 2009. p. 11.

Summary

Karen Sell is a modern practitioner of the age-old craft of wig making. A native of Singapore, Karen studied hairstyling in England, where she also took a course in wig making. She worked as a stylist for the Vidal Sassoon salons in London, then later in New York when she immigrated to this country in the late 1980s. In New York, she also worked as a stylist at a salon that made wigs. There, she styled and maintained wigs for clients, then established her own wig-making business about fifteen years ago.

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