I would assume that the concept of marit ayin applies to married women's hair covering (outside the home) as much as to any other mitzvah. So why do our poskim allow* her to wear a sheitel--which, in many cases, looks exactly like uncovered hair?
(There is a related concept to marit ayin called something like cheshed--wish I remembered the name--and I am wondering if it is that, too.)
It is somewhat widely acknowledged that the permissibility of sheitels constitutes a lenient (though mainstream) halachic ruling. So could it be that the Ashkenazic rabbis ruled thus because of the principle not to make a ruling that the people will not follow?
Related:
Can a Sheitel be made out of one's own hair?
Aren't wigs counterproductive?
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*I am referring specifically to the lines "the majority of our Rabbis {rabboteinu} and also of those upon whom we rely fundamentally for ruling, permit."
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