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High Styles: Stories from a World Class Hairdresser
Paperback
Publisher Price: $12.95
ISBN13: 9780595318759
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: Jun 23 2004
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Recipient of the World Gold Medallion, the industry's highest honor, he was a favorite of society ladies, stage and screen stars, and national and international political figures, such as the Bry, Waldheim, and Busch families of St. Louis; Martha Raye, outrageous Phyllis Diller, and Sophie Tucker, Last of the Red Hot Mamas; gracious Eleanor Roosevelt and genuine Queen Silvia of Sweden.
Get ready for a fascinating trip in the way-back machine! High Styles transports you to a bygone world of glitz and glamour, and as a true pioneer--one of the first male hairdressers in a conservative, Midwestern city--Buddy Walton proves today's groundbreakers could learn a lot from old school. An entertaining quick-read of a life well-lived.
--Victoria Wurdinger, Beauty industry journalist and author
Buddy's is a real American success story. His love for his clients, celebrity and down-home, shines from every page of this memoir.
--Mary Atherton, Editor in chief, Modern Salon and Process
When all planes still had propellers and travel by train was still a reasonable way to cross the country, passing through St. Louis was the only way to get anywhere else. Every movie star, dance troupe, theater company, and visiting royal entourage spent at least one night in St. Louis. For most of these celebrities, the first thing on their To Do list was to phone Buddy Walton for rinse, set, and style. More than once I've thought that we should have named our airport after Buddy.
--Francis G. Slay,
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