1. A capless stretch wig comprising, in combination, a foundation base means provided with an inelastic front portion and an inelastic rear strip portion, said inelastic portions being connected to one another by a plurality of spaced elastic strips to form a shape conforming to the human head, a portion of said elastic strips extend substantially parallel to one another from the front toward the rear portion of said base means with at least one elastic strip being generally U-shaped and having each leg portion connected to the inelastic rear portion of said base means; and a plurality of elastic hair wefts connected to said elastic strips of said base means, each of said wefts provided with hair fibers woven to said wefts to permit the length of said wefts between points of connection with said elastic strips to be elongated to at least approximately 150 percent of their normal length.

4. In a capless stretch wig construction the combination of an elastic base generally conforming to the shape of a human head and an elastic weft assembly attached to said base, said weft assembly including a first and second elastic thread extending substantially parallel to each other and provided with a plurality of hair fibers disposed substantially perpendicular to said elastic threads, said hair fibers being attached to said first elastic thread by a first inelastic thread continuously wound around one or more of said hair fibers and said first elastic thread at the point of intersection between said fibers and said first elastic thread, each of said hair fibers having two shank portions intersecting said second elastic thread and bound thereto by a second inelastic thread wound around the doubled shank portions of one or more hair fibers and said second elastic thread.