July 2003, Smithsonian Magazine gives us a glimpse into New Kingdom wig fashions

"The New Kingdom's affluent and fashion-conscious elite were probbly history's first leisure class. A highlight of the show is a late 18th Dynasty limestone statue (c.1336-1323 BC) of the wife - her name is lost to history - of the renovwned General Nakhtmin. With the eyes and cheekbones of a fashion model, the young woman wears a formfitting dress of pleated linen and an enormous wig with cascades of individually crimped braids ending in tassels."