[Avodah] Can a woman wear a wig if her mother did not?

[Rich, Joel]

>                                                         ... it's not
> so long ago that the normal post-partum hospital stay was two weeks.
> It would not surprise me if failing to light candles the first Shabbos
> after giving birth was not a rarity, and the din mentions that missing
> a week calls for lighting an extra candle for life. Is it too far a
> stretch to assume that those places which adopted the hanhaga of an
> extra candle per child did so k'de lo l'vayeish those who missed, by
> making it the practice of everyone?

> EMT

That is the most common reason I've heard given, but not with a reference
to an early source. I also wonder whether an ones would be subject to the
additional candle rule, but in any event, I still think it would likely
qualify as nahagu as above (i.e. there was no original rabbinic edict)

KT
Joel Rich