Moving hair from one head (or wherever) to another may seem kind of creepy -- like clipping someone else's fingernails and wearing them as your own -- but the buying and selling of hair for wigs and hairpieces is a roaring industry. Each year, tons of hair gets transferred between heads through vast networks of hair brokers, suppliers and manufacturers. And as sure as a pair of shoes made in Milan connotes a status different from that of a pair made in Taiwan, the origin of hair follows the same pecking order. Walk into any wig shop and you'll hear it in the cooing talk about "the finest European-quality hair."

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