George Washington’s hairstyle is ... Even if Washington didn’t wear a wig — as some of his contemporaries sported — he did powder his hair to get that white look. It may also have been ...

George Washington “fluffing out ... an Essay on Puffing by Louis le Grande', showing a seated old lady having her wig powdered by a nasty looking Frenchman. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty ...

It’s not the George Washington you know — powdered wig, regal bearing, war hero, Father of Our Country. It’s a young man, mid-20s, strong-willed and smart but emotionally scarred by his ...

“Sam Donaldson makes fun of George Washington’s wooden ... “Don’t let the powdered wigs fool you.” In fact, Washington’s long, full hair was entirely natural. A wig, which he could ...

Picture a portrait of George Washington. He's probably looking ... reddish-brown hair with a (likely expensive) powder, he did not wear wigs, favoring instead the military style of pulling his ...

Real George didn’t like to wear the powdered wigs of the day, though Bull probably will be wearing one May 21. “He was very conscious of his own self image,” Bull says of Washington ...

I would have found young George Washington intolerable ... Washington never wore a wig. Until he went gray, he wore his reddish (!) hair powdered and gathered in the back. Still, I feel like ...

In what’s become an annual tradition, the loser of a fantasy football league last season gets the privilege to run the annual ...

George Washington isn’t the sexiest of American ... the cherry tree myth, his powdered wig and bone-and-ivory (no, not wooden) teeth. But author Aaron David Miller argues in his new book ...

A COUPLE 135 YEARS. WE ALL KNOW GILBERT STUART’S PAINTING OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, HIS POWDERED WIG, HIS GRAND CLOTHING. HE WAS ALSO SIX FOOT TWO IN HIS STOCKING FEET. SO HE LOOKED GRAND.

The founding father’s statue has stood in Capitol Square downtown since 1857 but hasn’t had a fresh coat of lacquer in 43 years.