Wig shop tops heads with a touch of style.CYNTHIA Cynthia goddess of the moon. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 72] See : Moon Kong started out in the late 1960s selling wigs donated do·nate v. do·nat·ed, do·nat·ing, do·nates v.tr. To present as a gift to a fund or cause; contribute. v.intr. To make a contribution to a fund or cause. from a friend in Korea, and has grown that business into a bustling bus·tle 1 intr. & tr.v. bus·tled, bus·tling, bus·tles To move or cause to move energetically and busily. n. Excited and often noisy activity; a stir. store, Parisian Wigs & Hair, that specializes in hair weaving weaving, the art of forming a fabric by interlacing at right angles two or more sets of yarn or other material. It is one of the most ancient fundamental arts, as indicated by archaeological evidence. and hair pieces. As she prepares for her son to take over, Kong says she's satisfied with the success of the store. "I had a friend who owned a factory in Korea. They would send us samples (of wigs) and that's how we started. We've been in the same place since 1968. My friend got too old so he retired. He moved to Indonesia and sold the company and now I get hair from Indonesia, China and Korea. They send samples and if we like it then we order it. "If you are running a business you have to put in a lot of effort and have a lot of patience. A long time ago we were running the business with a sample in a brochure so we could order and sell like that. Nowadays, if you don't have the item in stock, you can't sell it. People will just go someplace some·place adv. & n. Somewhere: "I didn't care where I was from so long as it was someplace else" Garrison Keillor. See Usage Note at everyplace. else that does have it so you have to carry all kinds of items. "It's not easy, this type of business. But we do things special. Whenever a customer comes in we make sure to match the color and texture. They're satisfied and tell their friends. "A lot of people who become our customers are chemotherapy chemotherapy (kē'mōthĕr`əpē), treatment of disease with chemicals or drugs. One chemotherapeutic approach is the development of selectively toxic substances, i.e. patients. They are losing hair so they come in here and we do weaving and carry cap-less wigs. But we have all kinds of people, over 100 customers per week. Some customers try on so many wigs and mess up the style and then don't buy them. Then we have to restyle and it takes a lot of labor so you have to have a lot of employees. We have eight employees. "Weaving hair is just like your own hair. It lasts two to three Hair: Today, months and nobody can tell it's weaving hair. We've been doing weaving for almost 30 years. Now we have about three people weaving here. It takes two to three hours to weave somebody's hair. Whenever the customer comes in here we match their color and texture fight away. We give a 10 percent discount for the weaving if they buy the hair from us. Machine-wafted is about $130, or hand-wafted, which is finer, is about $140. "With wigs, there are all kinds of textures and types to choose from. Synthetic hair, for example, is just like human hair. It's light and comfortable but the hair can fringe Fringe (optics) One of the light or dark bands produced by interference or diffraction of light. Distances between fringes are usually very small, because of the short wavelength of light. up or dry up. Also, or no sale, people with sensitive skin can have a reaction. With human hair you can restyle and set it however you wish and change the color, and it lasts longer. Synthetic hair starts at $29 and goes up to $75 and some of the good hair is resistant to heating or perspiration perspiration: see sweat. perspiration Fluid given off by the skin as vapour by simple evaporation or as sweat actively secreted from sweat glands to evaporate and cool the body. . Human hair starts around $40 and goes up to $800." |
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