In the world of Truvy's local-homegrown beauty salon, six very different women come together to gossip, counsel, criticize and comfort one another. Helped by her eager new assistant Annelle, the outspoken, wise-cracking Truvy dispenses shampoos and free advice to Ouiser, the town's rich curmudgeon, Miss Clairee, an eccentric millionare, M'Lynn, the local social leader, and M'Lynn's daughter Shelby, who's about to marry a