I understand the idea of being covered - I just can't wrap myself around a covering that looks like what it's covering.
Kind of like a skin-tight, flesh-colored top. I'm sorry, it sounds offensive and I don't mean to be, but I really don't understand it.
Mrs VS
From the point of view of the woman wearing the wig, it probably feels very different from being bare-headed. Of course, as you say, from the point of view of the observer, it may look the same. However, her behaviour, in a wig, is likely to be somewhat different, and these little differences add up to a lot.
Personally speaking, I dislike wearing a wig and would throw it away in a heartbeat, but if I showed up for work wearing a hat or a headscarf people would think it was weird.
In all my years of working, much of my career spent in DEARBORN, I have never seen a Muslim woman in hijab.
I own 4 wigs, 3 "custom" and one semi-wig (fall) that I wear with a hat. I got them from my hairdresser at half price, she had received them as samples and was having a hard time selling them because of the small head size and red color.