The wigs they use on pepper, are soooo bad..
I realize it's the 70's but I haven't seen one yet that doesn't look like a bad cheap wig. Maybe it's on purpose, but I doubt it.
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I think she had hair like Lee Grant,who wore wigs also to get that full look. However, Angie's hair(wig) looked like it didn't know which directon to go, or better yet, tried too many directions. It would had looked better with something simpler.
shareI don't know... My mom had real hair that looked pretty much like that. Curlers and hairspray, I think, did the trick.
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You're probably right, since her hairline showed. They have lace wigs which make it look like your hairline shows, but they do not go back as far as Angies hairline did. It likely was her own hair. Too bad she didn't have a longer style or more like it was in Dressed To Kill (unless that was a wig)
It was only Angie's hair for the first six episodes of Season 1. The producer told her while shooting at the marina one day that she looked awful, and so she started wearing hairpieces that resembled her own hair from then on because they held up better under filming conditions.
To me, the real problem came when they chose to deglamorize her slightly for Season 2 and make her hair look less "done": mistaaaaaaaaaaaaake!
She seems aware of it, though. Not too long ago, she described POLICE WOMAN as a show "about a woman with a gun and bad hair".
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Wigs cannot make it look like the hairline is visible to that extent. The same thing is said about Mary Tyler Moore during her first 2 seasons. You can wear a wig very easily if it has bangs since that covers the troublesome hairline. With a lace hairpiece (like a man's hairpiece), it looks like the hair is growing from your scalp, but they cannot go back 4 inches, since the scalp does not have room-- unless you are completely bald. So if Angie;s hairline is, as the photos show, extending back that far, it cannot be a wig; maybe she wore an extension attached to her hair.
It was a wig, and Angie says so. Hairdressers know how to pull threads from your actual hairline and blend them in to the front of the wig so the hairline doesn't look fake on screen.
It's an old skill.
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That is called a weave (somewhat), when they use a wig with holes to pull your own strands of hair through. But, the question is: why bother, unless she has very thin hair or was going bald. Also, I didn't know if people knew what a front-"lace" wig/ hairpiece meant.
In 1978, this friend of mine from Massachusetts told me that Angie was going bald; I wondered how he would know (though he had a hair degree). I have this tendency to recall certain comments like that from a long time ago (deja vu)