“This weekend it’s going to get even hotter, that’s why I’m going to cut it off,” said Marlon Young, 42, a retired correction fficer, waiting his turn with five others in the Sanchez Barber Shop at 1797 Lexington Avenue in East Harlem. “I’m going bald, actually. Even the beard, I’m taking off.”
Admittedly, many men going under the razor this summer are not meteorologically inclined. At Levels Barbershop in Harlem, Eddie Rouse, 35, a hotel event manager, had his hair radically cropped nearly to the scalp, but “it had nothing to do with the weather,” he said, explaining that he likes to look impeccable.
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Posted on July 19, 2008 by D. Bell