To wear a bad toupee is to risk ridicule, a plight that has nothing to do with class, race, fame or fortune. Men can spend thousands on custom-made hairpieces and end up looking just as unconvincing ...

Randy James, 66, went bald when he was 30. Fighting nature, he shopped for a remedy. "There weren't many alternatives in the '70s," the Chicago lawyer says. "So I bought my first hairpiece but wasn't ...