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All this back and forth comes from a lack of understanding of the purpose of the mitzvah of kisui rosh
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The entire mitzvah is about modesty- a wig which looks like natural hair is not modest precisely for that reason- the wig has the same attraction as the hair underneath it. Here is what Chessed leAvraham (Rav Avraham Azulai (years 1570- 1643), a Grandfather of the well-known Rav Chida) writes: “since the whole point of the prohibition is because of the “pritzut degavrey” – It attracts the attention of men, there is no difference between her hair and a wig – it is one and the same Torah prohibition, because it is the external attractive-appearance that Torah forbids; many more Poskim write the same.
