"It is sent to Munich and made into wigs by girls." (Image by Charles S. Lillybridge.)

A lot of you have been requesting I post something from 1898 about doll hair, so here’s a note from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle of that year:

“The hair on the heads of most of the hundreds of thousands of dolls exhibited in shop windows is made from the hair of the Angora goat. This product is controlled by an English syndicate, and is valued at £80,000 a year. After the hair is prepared it is sent to Munich and made into wigs by girls.”