Girl down!

Alert Reader Molly shares:

"We were driving down Compton Avenue and spotted this. It's an entire wig, bangs and all. It somehow slipped off someone's head, unnoticed, and fell there on the street."

Here, kitty, kitty

As I was photographing this lovely specimen outside the Civil Courts Building downtown, a guy shouted from a passing car, "Is that my cat?!"

I poked it. It did not meow.

A bridge to discarded wigs

Here's proof that, in the right hands, even the weirdest subject can be made into a beautifully composed image. My friend and colleague (and Alert Reader) David shares this lovely head of hair — sans head, of course — he spotted at Commercial and Biddle streets downtown. Which means that the bridge in the background is the Dr. Martin Luther King Bridge.

Thanks, David!

Girl, you lost all your hair

Unless you're a drag queen who's schlepping around a whole mess of wigs, how do you manage to lose a whole head of hair?

Some mysteries will never be solved, I suppose.

Here's a little something from Alert Reader Tyson, spotted for a few days near Shaw Boulevard and Thurman Avenue.

This wig took the 7th Street exit

There's something symbolic about a discarded weave on an exit ramp, don't you think? Alert Reader Mike thought so. He shares this wig he found on the 7th Street exit ramp, off Interstate 55, I assume.

Girl, you almost lost your weave

This isn't a lost weave proper, but it's amusing nonetheless.

My friend Seth shares this photo of a mannequin at the Vintage Haberdashery at 3181 Morgan Ford Road. She better hold on to that hair.

Remember to keep your eyes peeled for lost weaves — or almost-lost weaves.

Anybody lose a wig at Grove Fest?

Alert Reader Rob spotted this wig, chillin' on a Post-Dispatch machine in front of the Post Office at 4120 Manchester Avenue, during Grove Fest over the weekend.

An amazing find. And amazing product placement!

Did you find a wig or weave? Share.

Why did Ronald McDonald's wig cross the road?

The thing people ask me the most when they see this blog is, "How do people lose their hair?" I guess sometimes it just falls out. But I honestly don't see how people are just losing whole wigs like this -- on the street!

This fantastic red wig was spotted by Alert Reader Bill at Gravois and Nebraska avenues in St. Louis. Thanks, Bill!

Be like Bill. Share your sightings with me.

Yeti in the woods? No, just a wig in the bushes.

This isn't just a weave -- it's a full wig, spotted by Alert Reader Mike. He found it at Spring Avenue and Potomac Street in St. Louis, which, if my coordinates are correct, is the same intersection as a bar that features female impersonators.

Punching Kitty's wig-trail sighting

Photo by Punching Kitty

Over on Punching Kitty, one of our favorite local blogs, there was a post a couple of weeks ago about a trail of wigs on Hampton Avenue, from Interstate 44 to the Target at Chippewa. Where'd they come from? We don't know. But pretty cool, eh?


From Punching Kitty:

Anyone lose some wigs on Hampton? If you did, that would really make this less of a mystery, but until you fess up, this is some weird crap right here.

According to our source there was an apparent trail of wigs going down Hampton Ave. in the area of the Target there at Chippewa.

Yes, we’ve considered that the furry objects could be something else other than wigs, but I don’t think tribbles are that dark and only I need a merkin that big, so we can’t think of what else they could be. Even if our source is wrong, and we really doubt that, would it make this story any less weird?

Don't wig out — it's just hair in the street

This is quite a specimen: a full wig. Not a good wig, but a full one nonetheless.

Found June 25, 2009, in the street at Spring and Potomac avenues in South St. Louis.