A high roll is a hairstyle that Western women wore in the late 1700s. It was especially associated with France, England, and what later became the United States. The hairstyle was considered a status symbol because it required the wearer to sit for hours while a professional hairdresser set the roll. Some women, for example, Queen Marie Antoinette of France, would wear feathers, jewelry, or sculptures of plants and animals in their high hair. Some women said that it would itch.