One of the first third-party applications I put on my Samsung Moment Google Phone right away was a Kindle-like utility called Aldiko. It came preloaded with a novella by H G Wells, called The Invisible Man. I have read that book before, but it was a long time ago. As it is extremely hard for me to pick up a book without starting to read it, I did end up devouring the first three chapters before getting out of bed this morning.
Rather early on, the Wells gives us a description of a man who is wearing a very bad wig. The reason as you may recall is that he is trying to cover up the fact that he is invisible, so he needed a mop of hair, big glasses, scarf, and a high collar to cover the fact that his face wasn't there. The novel was published in 1897, so naturally I wondered what a fellow in his predicament might be able to do now, with technology presumably having advanced in the area of hair restoration. He might seek information from the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery. The villain in the Wells novella, whose name was Griffin, would not have been a good candidate for hair transplant though, because he lacked sufficient donor hair to get anything started.
Of course, given Griffin's proclivity for larceny, successful surgical restoration would put him in a bad position in any case. When he wanted to burglarize a home or office he needed to be able to take the wig off in order to enter the premises unseen.
I like the way Wells introduces Griffin's character as somewhat sympathetic to the reader and then adds details until we finally comprehend what a flawed individual he was even before deforming himself. Bad hair was the least of that guy's problems.
