The sources for the Wiggy Thesaurus are varied, but they all have one thing in common – they aided in the organization and explanation of the creation of our Wiggy Thesaurus.  The examination of created thesauri was beneficial in that it helped to clarify in our minds what a thesaurus actually is – a concept that was difficult to wrap our heads around.  The hairstyle sources were beneficial in naming all of the styles that we would be carrying in our wig collection, and identified the necessary parts of a wig that would be indexed, and searched for, by our user group.  Our additional sources were imperative in the final stages of our thesaurus construction, and helped to ‘fine tune’ the end result.

Archaeological Objects Thesaurus http://www.mda.org.uk/archobj/archcon.htm Accessed March 4, 2003.

This website helped us to organize our thesaurus. Its method of cleanly laying things out, as well as its use of facets, was particularly useful.

The Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online http://www.mda.org.uk/archobj/archcon.htm Accessed March 4, 2003.

While more difficult to navigate than the Archaeological Objects Thesaurus, this website also helped us format and layout our thesaurus.  Its various levels were an inspiration to us, as was its organizational structure.

Asser, Joyce.  Historic Hairdressing.  Bath, UK:  Pitman Press, 1996.

This book serves as a guide to the hairstyles of various historical periods, beginning with ancient societies of Egypt and Mesopotamia and extending to the 1960s.  As noted in the introduction, hairstyles cannot be considered apart from the historical periods they appear in, and is only one aspect of overall style. It was created to be used as a guide for students of hairdressing and for those involved in creating historical styles for theatre and film. 
For each period, the book describes and illustrates men’s and women’s hairstyles.   Chapter 14, “Twentieth Century Hair Styles” was the most relevant for our thesaurus creation.  This was a very useful source because of the many illustrations of each style and because there were dates associated with all styles.  It also includes a back-of-the-book index and a glossary. 

Baker, Patsy. Wigs and Make-up for Theatre Television and Film.  Oxford, UK:  Focal Press, 1993.

This book was designed as an aid for teachers and students engaged in theatrical and media make-up as well as postiche work.  It explains the many and varied processes involved in the art and craft of make-up and postiche work, and upholds the standards of the guilds and vocational organizations of Britain.  Of particular use for our thesaurus creation were Chapters 8 through10, which describe the making of, and caring for wigs, and Chapter 14 that covers the history of postiche, including the twentieth century. 
We gathered terms from this book by reading the text and captions describing different types of and parts of postiche.  We felt this was an authoritative source, being up-to-date and aimed at a professional group.  It includes a back-of-the-book index as well as a glossary.

Baron Unlimited. Fun Wigs http://www.funwigs.com/cgi-bin/fw Accessed March 4, 2003.

This company specializes in fashionable wigs and features a large selection of 20th Century women’s wig styles. Fun Wigs is one of the best-organized sites that we encountered on the web. The site designers have created categories and subcategories for the various wigs. To illustrate, the style ‘Dreads’ belongs to the category Costume Wigs and the subcategory Afro/Rasta. The site also provides a description for every wig; each description includes detailed information about the length and style of the wig. Another important feature of this site is its keyword search engine, which allows users to search for particular styles and colours.

Celebrations the Party People http://www.celebrations-party.co.uk/index.htm Accessed March 4, 2003.

Celebrations is a UK based company that specializes in all types of party supplies including costume wigs. This site features a diverse collection of wigs; we utilized this site to locate information about more exotic wig styles, such as the cornrow. Furthermore, we found the images of the wigs featured on this site to be particularly useful for our project. The images were clear, relatively large, and in colour. This site also contains an internal search engine.

Cooper, Wendy. Hair:  Sex Society Symbolism. London: Aldus Books, 1971.

Presents a historical view of hair, through the ages, around the world and both genders.  It includes many illustrations and a good back-of-the-book index.

Corson, Richard. Hair – the first 5000 years.  2nd ed. London: Peter Owen, 1980.

A comprehensive survey of men’s and women’s hairstyles through the ages.  Excellent illustrations (drawings done by the author), accompanied by an analysis of social context for each hairstyle.  It also covers the development of hair dressing as a profession and art.

The Costumer http://www.thecostumer.com/store Accessed March 4, 2003.

The Costumer first began operations in 1917 and is now one of the major costume companies in the United States. The company's products have been used in a variety of venues from Vaudeville to motion pictures. We found the Costumer site to be an effective tool in the construction of our thesaurus for the following reasons: the site identifies the time period to which each individual wig style belongs and the descriptions also list alternative terms for each style.

Cox, James Stevens. An illustrated dictionary of hairdressing and wigmaking.  London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1983.

The first half of this large tome is a dictionary of words used to describe hairstyles and wig making, parts of wigs, tools used by wig makers and hairdressers and other sundry and related terms.  The second half is illustrations of hairstyles, mostly taken from comics published in magazines and other popular literature over the years.  This was our major source for authoritative definitions.

De Castelbajac, Kate.  The Face of the Century; 100 Years of Makeup and Style. New York: Rizzoli, 1995.

This was an instrumental source for our topic.  Arranged by the decade, this book went into all aspects of style, including hairstyles.  As these hairstyles were later used as models for the manufacturing of wigs, this book was excellent in giving a brief background into the styles of various decades.  As it covered all of the 20th Century, which is the era in which our wig thesaurus started, this book gave a great foundation for basic words and phrases that are used throughout the thesaurus.  The book contains captioned photographs as well as descriptive paragraphs, and often has a photograph of the ‘star’ associated with the hairstyle as well.

De Courtais, Georgine.  Women’s Headdress and Hairstyles in England from AD 600 to the Present Day.  London, UK: B.T.Batsford Ltd, 1973.

This authoritative guide to historic hairstyles is beautifully illustrated with line drawings of various styles, and very detailed.  It is aimed at the student at costume schools and colleges, and to give a general idea of the style of dress worn during each period and its relationship to the headwear of the time.  The twentieth century is covered in several chapters, each focusing on a decade or so, ending with the period 1960 to 1972. 
This book includes a good index at the back of the book as well as a short glossary.  The glossary was not very useful as it contained mainly archaic terms. 

Fantasy Festival Costume/Magic Centre http://www.fantasyfestival.com/en-us/front.html Accessed on February 16, 2003. 

Fantasy Festival Costume/ Magic Centre is an American company that was established in 1983. This particular website had the most extensive collection of 1920s-1950s wig styles that we encountered during our “web research”. 

Gale, Joanne. Fashion Wigs Selling and Servicing. London: Heienemann, 1972. 

As this book is based on the selling of wigs, and published in 1972, it was instrumental in setting up the basics of how wigs were made in the past, and how they were modernized in the 1960’s.  While definitely written for someone interested in selling wigs, it is full of words that were useful in determining the kinds of wigs that we would be collecting, as well as how to care for our wigs.  Although its back of the book index was limited at best, chapter by chapter it helped us determine which words on the making of wigs that we would need to include in our briefer section on this topic.
 

Great Wigs  http://www.greatwigs.co.uk/index.htm Accessed March 1, 2003. 

Great Wigs is a UK based company that was established in 1985. The company has over 500 wig styles in its collection and promotes itself as the “one-stop shop for the best wigs”. We found this site to be particularly useful in developing the 1960s and 1970s section of our thesaurus. 

National Information Standards Organization. Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Thesauri. Bethesda, MD: NISO Press, 1993.

This is the definitive guide to creating a thesaurus, and it was used to its full extent.  Chapters 3, 4, and 5 were the most helpful, as they clearly delineated the style necessary for each term, and helped to create the consistency throughout our thesaurus.

Malagoli, Marisa. Hairdressing throughout History.  Italy: C.E.B. Edicharme. 1984.

This book describes hairdressing styles from ancient times to the 1980s and contains full-page photographs of mannequins with real hair wigs, combined with full descriptions and instructions as to how the styles are achieved.  It was not an excellent source of terms, but was useful for naming styles. 

Mulvey, Kate and Melissa Richards. Decades of Beauty. The Changing Images of Women 1890’s ~ 1990’s. New York: Reed Consumer Books Limited. 1998.

Similar in scope and depth to “The Face of the Century”, this book again went through the history of women’s fashion, including hairstyles, decade by decade.  With rich colour and black and white stills from movies as well as detailed textual information, this book supplemented “The Face of the Century” and confirmed our choices for the main styles of wigs that we would be collecting.  As it looked at the changing image of women, there was much detail about why a certain hairstyle was popular, which is irrelevant to this project, but certainly increased our interest in the subject of women’s hairstyles, and their representation as a wig form.

Schreier, Sandy. Hollywood Dressed & Undressed. A Century of Cinema Style. New York: Rizzoli. 1998.

This book was rich in photographic display, which helped to cement the styles we chose as most prominent in each particular decade.  Although lacking in text that was beneficial for this topic, the photos, both colour and black and white, exemplified many of the styles we chose to include in our wig thesaurus. 

 Stephenson, Mary Sue (Susie). Instructor and Coordinator of Information Technology. School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies. University of British Columbia. Vancouver: Canada, 2003.

Our guru to all of the tricky technicalities of a thesaurus.  Susie knows all, and is generous enough to share it with the rest of us.