Eva & Co. Wigs, a Vancouver specialty wig store, has experienced three break-ins over four years. Its human-hair wigs sell for between $2,500 and $3,500 each.
Sometime after 3 a.m. on Sept. 7, a thief crawled through the back of a closet in a specialty wig store on West Broadway in Vancouver, having smashed a hole through the wall of a neighbouring tea shop with a crowbar. Knocking over some paint cans in the process, the thief emerged into the store’s back room and began stuffing over $350,000 worth of wigs into a garbage bag taken from under one of the cupboards.
“The first question they ask is, ‘Will it look natural?’ ” Yip says of her customers, particularly those suffering from medically related hair loss. “They’re already going through so much. They don’t want anything more to be different.” The process of making a wig that doesn’t look like a wig is tedious, not to mention expensive.
But quality takes time, and with so many orders coming in at once, customers can typically expect a three-month wait for custom wigs. Yip and her co-workers had just finished a batch of custom orders when the theft occurred. Instead of calling to tell clients that their wigs were finally ready to be picked up, they had to break the news that their long-awaited wigs had been stolen.
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