Button's Wig

Button's Wig is a wig found on top of Button Gwinnett's cabinet at the end of the Stealing Independence quest, or on the floor behind his desk (ps3). When equipped, the wig grants a bonus to the Intelligence trait as well as the Barter and Speech skills, but subtracts a point from the Perception trait. +5 Barter, -1 PE, +1 IN, +10 Speech.

The intelligence bonus gives +2 to the Science, Medicine, and Repair skills (assuming you do not already have a 10 intelligence). This is the only headgear other than Lincoln's Hat that gives bonuses to these skills.

This piece of headwear, while rather weak, has the interesting capability of increasing several "stand-by" skills profitably, such as giving 10+ to the speech skill, and therefore netting an impressive 20+ to speech when combined with Naughty Nightwear. The same can be said to combining the headwear with, for instance, Lesko's Lab Coat, Red Racer Jumpsuit and The Surgeon's Lab Coat giving impressive bonuses to the INT skills. It should be noted that 10+ speech has about the same result to NPC disposition as 2+CH.

This headwear goes from "handy" to "incredible" the moment you get you hands on Chinese Stealth Armor, and therefore become capable not only of wearing all sorts of headwear you'd like for stats-boosting purposes, but also able to simply revert the -1 PE and maxing it to 10 by simply aquiring any two Pre-War Hat or similar PE boosting headwear of the same kind and use the glitch described on Chinese Stealth Armor's page.

Another nice approach is using this item along with the Chinese Stealth Armor's glitch, Naughty Nightwear, T-51b Power Helmet, Winterized T-51b Power Helmet, Lincoln's Hat and Eulogy Jones' Hat for an astounding +25 Speech and +3 CH, giving an amazing boost to the general disposition towards you.