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A Little Off the Top

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

A Little Off the Top: Infiltrating the American Tapering Barbershop

(By Kim Bultsma, Fine Lines webmaster and English teacher at Bellevue West High School, Bellevue, NE)

“There’s many a man hath more hair than wit” (William Shakespeare).

Most men hate going to beauty salons. For one thing, salons smell as if hairdressers use their coloring products to wash the floors. And men can’t just walk into a beauty salon and expect a cut within the next 10 minutes. Women are willing to wait for beauty; men want to look good now, when they have the time. (more…)