Jonesy123 Wrote:Rod I'm sure I can learn from my experience, but I really prefer to learn from your and other people experience, and potentially save me some trouble.

Jonesy, I just want to say that I know exactly where you're coming from. You're quietly agonizing about losing your hair and are agonizing just as much that even with all the positive testimonials provided here wearing hair isn't going to cut it either -- it either won't look real or it's not worth all the maintenance.

A hundred years ago there was a segment on 20/20 about young guys -- your age give or take -- whose lives, it appeared, were transformed by wearing hair. The segment started off showing the guys without their wigs at a party being mostly ignored. Then, like Clark Kent disappearing into a phone and flying away as Superman, the guys returned to the party with their toppers and the ladies were pawing them all over. Looked great!!

At least one of the guys featured in the segment was a sales associate for J.A. Alternatives at their New Jersey office. I drove out to see him for a consultation. The instant I laid eyes on him I was disappointed -- his "unit" was that bad. I felt like I was doing him a kindness by not just turning around and getting back in my car.

A few years later, still unhappy by my increasing hair loss, I scheduled another appointment at J.A. Alternatives (they used to run weekly infomercials on Manhattan Pulic Access cable). I left no more impressed than I did the first time. The sales associate I saw wasn't even wearing his piece during our consultation. He explained that sometimes he wore it, sometimes he didn't.

I'm sure the technology has come a long way, so I don't mean to express that my disappointment of a decade and a half ago is relevant to the guys sporting their TL pieces. This is just my long-winded way of saying that I can identify with your hesitations. I never took the plunge to wear for many of the same reasons that you're resisting doing it now. I will say that not having my mop top is not the knife in my self-esteem that it once was.