May a woman go out on Shabbat wearing hair strands (wig/peah nochrit) made from human, other women's, or animal hair?
Synopsis
The Mechaber permits going out with hair strands wound around her own hair, even from animal hair, but prohibits an old woman wearing a young woman's hair or vice versa due to mockery concern.
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