Customs: Handsome Is

Barbershops ain't what they used to be. The once familiar "thin it out some on top, and no machine on the sides" has given way to an operation that sometimes lasts three hours, may include everything from a permanent wave to an eyelash tint, and can cost as much as twenty bucks. Like ruffled shirt fronts and cuff links the size of poker chips, it all seems to have started in Hollywood.

When a Hollywood type says, "I see you've been to Sebring," he doesn't mean the sports-car races. He is talking about Jay Sebring, 28, the Alabama-born boy who...

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