SYDNEY BARBERS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 138, 13 June 1931, Page 15

SYDNEY BARBERS

HAIR CUTS AT HOME

(From The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, 3rd June. Hairdressers, like ' everyone else in Sydney, are feeling the pinch of hard times. At existing rates, the average man cannot have the' same regard for his hirsute adornment ■as was formerly the ease. - Ho either now has only one haircut every few weeks where he used to have two, or he gets his wife to trim the back of his hair for nothing. The result is an army of unemployed hairdressers, somo of whom, however, have conceived the noble idea of going from house to houso with their paraphernalia, searching for any men about the place, and offering to cut their hair in their own homos for sixpence, tho prico of a shave being cut as low as fourponce and threepence. One unemployed suburban hairdresser is earning at least £3 a week this way; others are also thus keeping the wolf .from the door. That this price-cutting has incurred the. wrath of regular hairdressers is not surprising. Suburban boot repairers are also calling for orders, where, formerly, one had to take'one's footwear to them and, more often than not, had to call two or three times before getting the boots or shoes back. Now, without delay, ono can have them called for and delivered. Tho days when mo'uoy was easily earned, and tradesmen could treat one with a certain amount of disdain, are gone. In many of the city sh,ops, too, the change that has come over things is very evident. Counter hands, scared of losing their jobs, treat one nowadays with almost tho chivalry and courtesy of modern Bayards.