Kisui rosh is clearly about modesty. The Chofetz Chaim wrote a sefer “Geder Olam” explaining the great punishment a woman brings upon herself and her husband if she walks around with her hair uncovered as this is a severe breach of modesty. He keeps repeating how immodest it is for a woman to walk around with uncovered hair –
In Chapter 7 which starts off with “An explanation of the greatness of the character trait of modesty, the reward for being modest in this world and in Olam Haba, and in an opposite sense, G-d forbid, her “reward” if she follows a lifestyle of immodesty”
It says further on:
“Therefore, a woman must accustom herself to the character trait of modesty, and in so doing it will be good for her here in this world and there in Olam Haba.
Now, from all this we can think deeply about how much a wife must be careful in this matter of her hair, or her arms or her chest, that they should not be seen outside.
Also, the Zohar in perushat Naso was very strict in this regard, that the hair of a (married) woman should not be visible at all, quoted here as follows: Rebbe Chizkiyah said: “Insanity should be invoked on any man who allows his wife to let her hair be seen in public, as this is one of the pillars of modesty which is the responsibility of the woman. The woman who exposes her hair in public to enhance/beautify her appearance causes poverty in her family and is the cause for her children to be simple and devoid of any importance, and will cause bad things to happen to her family. What was the cause of all this; her hair, which was apparent from under her head covering. And if this is so in her own house, how much even more so it an enormous arrogance to appear like that in public… ”
So if todays wigs are enhancing and beautifying a womans appearance (unlike the wigs from years ago which were quite unattractive), how is this not a great breach of tznius?? Why is this different than a woman walking around with her own hair showing- which is usually not even as nice as the current wigs? The wigs today are having the same effect on men as a woman’s natural hair (actually much more so)
Kol hakavod to those women who are wearing short, stiff wiggy wigs, those are modest as they do not beautify the woman wearing it, but most women under 60 are not wearing wigs like that anymore.
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