Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-04-05
BY VOLNEY b. FOWLER.

He was of far more than voting age.
He carefully directed the barber how TO
cut his hair, Everything had to be just
So The artist OF the clippers finished
and stood back to survey his work. A
darned good job if he did say so him
self Then
Mr.. Customer got out Of the chair,
went over to the mirror, took the BARRIERS
scissors and proceeded to snip four or
FIVE swatches from front to rear of his
head Good night, tonsorial masterpiece.
THAT was the funniest haircut l ever
saw a man get" declared Charlie Judy,
who Yields a razor for Jack HarbOr at
&c South Illinois street
"a barber shop is one Of the funniest
places in town" said Jack HarbOr. "One
Of the most humorous orders I ever got
was from the man who wanted il "Cut
short around the bottom and cut long
on TOP. The silliest haircut ever invented
is the old crock cut, where you clip Il
up close to the top and then shave from
there down. This modern cut, where they
have it bobbed in the rear, gets q laugh.
| too.
You know we've got q jazz style for
about everything under the sun Well,
we've got q jazz haircut. That's one
where you part it In the middle and comb
| 1t straight back on both sides"
/ TWO-PIECE CUT Is
| REGULAR SCREAM.
"Comical cuts You can't beat the
/ tvo-piece haircut for comedy" declared
| o. r. Wilson Of the Hotel Lincoln barber
/ shop. when you make a two piece hair
| cut you clip it up just as high as you
can and quit. l call the present style
1 the Ben Turpin, when it's bobbed square
| across the neck. Some of the haircuts
J So Al
/ lot Of men have to have their hair
/ trimmed to suit their wives. I have had
men bring their wives with them. The
/ good ladies stand right by the chair and
/ tell exactly how they want things done,
too
There are haircuts and haircuts, hut
the correct thing, according TO n big
barber supply company's advertising, is
what Jack Harbor calls the New York
cut" Eastern travelling statesmen and
other visitors from the Atlantic coast
protest against a western haircut They
think it's barbaric. What they want is
a good, safe, sane conservative cut, des-
cribed In the barber book like this:
Close to the ear. Vertical line on
side Of neck. No clipping except at the
very lower part Of neck. The longer
hairs on top of the head should dove
back"
That's a regular haircut, according TO
the book None Of this old fashioned
neck shaving and feather-edge clipping
for the Eastern Bennies
But haircut styles dom: come out Of
( books, according to Jack Finkle and
Judy Of the Harbor shop and Wilson Of
the Lincoln.
Haircut styles mostly originate in
colleges said Finkle. ''They make the
freshmen cut their hair a certain way
and the fad spreads That's the way the
old 'campus-cut' got started. The cam
pus cut was a style in which you clipped
UP close to a high line. That was born
at Ohio State University"
THE BIRTH OF
A HAIRCUT.
Judy thought differently. It's the new
barber, who sets the pace, he said The
youngster blazes away with the clippers
and cuts in the wrong direction. Then
he has to trim the rest of the head to
cover up the mistake. LO and behold, q
new style is born!
The new barber originates haircut
styles by not knowing any better" Viii
son believes.
Not at all, not at ALL" protested c
D. TORI, proprietor of TORS Sanitary
Barber College, 472 West Washington
street, where they start young hopeful
BARRIERS on their way. Haircut styles
are purely a matter of evolution. They
just grow gradually. The modern trend
is toward shortness and sanitation. You
can tell your man by how short he keeps
his hair and how regularly he ha~ il
trimmed. Read character by haircutst
should say you can"
The hardest man to please is the man
who has the least hair, according to Har
Dor. Hes afraid you'll cut one Of then
clear off,
| Wilson differed on this. The most par
| ticular customer is the man who shaveS
| himself. in his opinion.
THE darndest thing men have done
in a modern barber shop is to have their
eve brows arched," said Finkle.
The charge for first class geOmetrical
II true eyebrow arch is one dollar, the
theory evidently being that any man