I had friends in the hair era who had pieces that even their groupies didn't know they had. There are great ones, but they're expensive and require a lot of maintenance. Short hair makes it harder to fool the eye, but long hair, real (human) hair in the piece, and a great cut and color once it was placed made it invisible on the guys I knew. Nothing like your (my) brother-in-law's toupee.
At 52, and having been lucky enough not to have needed one (especially after almost 30 years of a fully shaved head being totally acceptable on any white guy not named Telly or Yul), I agree with the idea of letting it go, but I'm not so sure I would have been that sanguine about it in 1986 when I was 21 and surrounded by hair farmers in Hollywood.