What is High roll?
[[File:Marie_Antoinette_with_decadent_hair.jpg|thumb|right|Marie Antoinette wearing a high roll.]] A '''high roll''' is a [[hairstyle]] that [[Western culture|Western]] women wore in the late 1700s.<ref name=Short>{{cite journal|url=http://commonplace.online/article/a-short-history-of-the-high-roll/|access-date=October 28, 2020|author=Kate Haulman|title=A Short History of the High Roll|journal=Common Place}}</ref><ref name=Daily /> The style took hours to make. Sometimes, a professional hairdresser would style the woman's hair. That meant the woman had to be rich enough to pay a hairdresser and to spend hours sitting in a chair not working. This made the high roll a [[status symbol]].<ref name=Short /><ref name=Daily>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yqxmCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22high+roll%22+hair&pg=PA262|access-date=October 30, 2020|page=246|title=The World of the American Revolution: A Daily Life Encyclopedia|date=August 25, 2015|isbn=9781440830280|editor=Merrill D. Smith|publisher=ABC-CLIO}}</ref> The hairstyle could be [[big hair|very tall]] and make a person's head seem twice as high. First, the woman's hair would be combed. Then the woman or her hairdresser would add [[pomade|pomatum]] to the hair so it could be shaped. The pomatum would have treated fat, oil and perfumes or spices in it. This would make the hair smell good, kill [[headlice]], and help hold the hair in place. Women would add extra hair collected from cows, horses, or other people. Or they would collect from their own hairbrushes over time and reuse it. Women and hairdressers would use small pillows inside the hair to hold it up. Some women would make curls along the sides or neck with curlers. The hair was held in place with pins. The hair could be natural color or colored gray, brown or white with powder.<ref name=Daily /> Some women, for example, Queen [[Marie Antoinette]] of France, would wear feathers, jewelry, or sculptures of plants and animals in their high hair.<ref name=Colonial>{{cite book|author=Keith Krawczynski