38 WDSchitt’s Creek’s
Moira lives
for wigs!The grandmother
says her wigs give
her confidence.F
ans of Schitt’s Creek, the beloved
Netflix comedy, will be familiar
with Catherine O’Hara’s delightfully
eccentric wig-collecting Moira Rose
and her “girls”.
Now meet Australia’s own Moira,
Sydney’s Sue Hollway.
Sue has 30 of her own “girls” at home,
with her wig collection rivalling Moira’s
legendary ladies. And she even goes
one better, helping send wigs
to women in need.
Working with US support
group Sister to Sister – Blessed
with Hair! to Share, and
Australia and New Zealand Hair
Loss Support Group for Women- and the teams who run them
- Sue distributes wigs to Aussie
women who want them.
“The group started in America
and Wendy, who runs it, is the
most wonderful person,” says
Sue, 73. “She has a full-time job,
and she spends half her time refurbishing
wigs, and it’s just got bigger and bigger, so
we started doing it here.
“Now people who have them, or who
had wigs and have since not needed them
because their hair’s grown back, are
starting to donate, so it’s starting to take off
in the Australian group as well. This box
arrived about three weeks ago, 50 wigs, all
jammed in!
“I’m in charge of
the gifting,” says the
grandmother-of-five.
“Every Saturday we
have #giftofhair day,and I model about four wigs a week. And
anyone who wants one of them, they just
comment on the photo, ‘I’m interested.’
And if there’s two or three, I choose the
most deserving, or the one I think will suit
the most.”CONFIDENCE BOOSTERS
Once decided, Sue only charges for
packing and postage, and the lucky
recipients can choose to keep them, or pay
the wigs forward in the same way – with
strict rules about not selling them, they
can only be given away.
While she has nowhere near the 400 wigs
of some of the group members, Sue
has become very invested in the
hairpieces and the confidence they
bring, but her journey towards
helping these women in need hasn’t
been easy.
Her partner Joe recently lost a
three-year battle with lung cancer –
and her life changed immeasurablyAustralia’s very own
With 30 of her own hairpieces and plenty more to give
to charity, Sue Hollway has a wig for every occasion
Real life