Pamela Smith, 52, a retired hairdresser from Dothan, Ala., said: "My husband is in advertising and marketing, and they're talking about moving him up.

A couple of retired Cuban hairdressers have claimed the block north of her, but she has not met them because she does not stray from her own.

"It was really dumb of him," said Mrs. Cohen, a retired hairdresser and mother of two.

The bridegroom's mother is a retired hairdresser.

She described a neighbor in her 90's, a retired hairdresser who is concerned about her tax bills.

But Mr. Schmid, the retired hairdresser, sees folly where so-called Eurocrats see fortune.

His mother, Marie-Josée, is a retired hairdresser, and his father, Charles, who died in 2006, was a blacksmith.

Briefly she outlined what the retired hairdresser had told her about the wigs.

He's a retired hairdresser.

'We fancied,' I said, 'that he might be a retired hairdresser.'