Permanent Waving – The Golden Years

This is a personal history of the evolution of the use of electricity in ladies' hairdressing and in medical treatment, mainly during the twenties and thirties. It deals mainly with the manner in which an inventor called Calvete and a hairdresser called Eugene developed a system that became famous and universally used not in London where it originated but in the rest of the world. Some of the detail is mainly of interest to hairdressers or those interested in electro-medical equipment, but any lady who lived in that period will have heard of Eugene waving. This is also a record how, as a child, the author becames aware of all these developments and also those taking place on the world stage.