Wellington’s Tonsorial Art
Sir, —I wonder can any of your readers tell me where I can get a decent haircut in Wellington? I have travelled over most parts of the world, and am slowly coming to the awful belief that the standard of tonsorial art in Wellington is only slightly better than that of Vladivostoclc.
On my arrival here several months ago I naturally approached several people, asking them what one did about getting one’s hair cut in Wellington. The first three answers were, “Oh, I always go to Auckland”; the others have said, “You may well ask,” or merely replied with a hollow laugh. lam beginning to find out why. I like my hair cut about every ten days, and I honestly can’t afford to go to Auckland for it, and can’t help feeling that it should not be necessary. Can someone please do something for me? I. am looking for a place which meets the following conditions: —
(a) Where the barber does not look up from his “Bulletin” when. I come in with an expression that obviously says “Blast it—another job of work—oh well, I’ll get through it as quickly as possible and get on with my story.” (b) Where I do not have to wade through a week’s accumulation of hair Clippings and dirty cotton wool, /and do not have to blow files off my nose while my hair is being cut. (c) Where they will take “a little off the top” without ’ being asked to do so, and ’exhibiting surprise thereat. I am not trying to grow a pigtail. (d) Where they don’t crop me for six inches up and leave the rest. The “Japanese doll” or “pudding bowl” clip does not suit my peculiar type of beauty. (e) Where they will brush the cuppings off my head. They don’t mow their lawns and leave the grass lying there, and I don’t expect to have to go home and have a bath after every haircut. . (f) Where I come out looking a bit smarter than when I went in. . These are bare essentials. “Service • and “touch” I neitfibr expect nor ask for, but if I can get them, so much the better. In other, parts of the world I’d go and get a haircut when I was feeling low. A haircut used to be a sure cure for the blues. I’d go in looking and feeling like a Bolshie, and come out all bright and cheerful and feeling as if I looked like Bing Crosby. I refuse to believe that this is not possible in a city of this size, and I look to someone to save Wellington s reputation by telling me where. It is in danger of being known as “a nice place, but you can’t get a haircut there.” —I am, etc.. STREWELPETER. Wellington, January 3.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 85, 4 January 1935, Page 11
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473Wellington’s Tonsorial Art Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 85, 4 January 1935, Page 11
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