Knockout!
That’s what would happen to me if I told my wife I was going to get my haircut at this place. Boston Herald:
A cutting-edge salon providing pampering for men by bodacious beauties in boxing gear has hair standing on end in Mansfield, where Knockouts will set up shop Nov. 2 beside a family restaurant.
Tom Friday, CEO of the Texas-based chain, told the Herald yesterday he suspects a Web site mixup is at the root of community concerns he hopes to assuage by hosting a meet-and-greet Friday at noon at the town’s Holiday Inn.
His company’s Web site is at knockouts.net – a close shave with knockouts.com, where browsers are met by a seemingly anatomically impossible photo of a woman in a red bikini.
“I think people may have seen that and got the wrong idea about us,” Friday said.
Mansfield Board of Selectmen Chairman Ann Baldwin told the Brockton Enterprise she’s already fielded “20 to 30 complaints” from constituents who’ve come out swinging over Knockouts.
While customers settle into leather chairs to watch remote-controlled TV, “It’s professional haircuts all the way,” Friday, a father of two daughters, said of the business he started seven years ago. “If there was any impropriety whatsoever, we would go to jail.”
Knockouts has 450 salons in 26 states. Men and women enjoy complimentary water, soft drinks and coffee with their free five-minute hand or face massage.
Knockouts has coexisted with a military recruiting center on Route 9 in Framingham trouble-free for the past year.
Actually sounds like a pretty good place for a recruiting center.
Alyssa Higgins, 21, said “a good quarter” of Knockouts’ client base is actually kids ages 2 to 12.
“It’s a fun place for dads to bring their sons,” she said.
If I took my kid there, she’d really kill me. Not that the 13-year-old would want to go there with his old man, anyway. Though I’ll never forget how the little guy’s eyes popped open when he was about 1 1/2, awake in the middle of the night channelsurfing with his dad, and we landed on Univision. That and when we landed on the History Channel, which just had a dark screen with tracer fire darting across and a lot of machine gun noise. That’s when I knew the little guy had all the appropriate male instincts intact.*
Higgins said Knockout girls wear workout shorts, T-shirts and sweatshirts, but are not allowed to expose cleavage or bottoms.
“It’s very tasteful,” she said. “It’s about sports – it’s not about the sex appeal. There’s a fine line between sexy and too much. I’ve never had a client make me feel uncomfortable.”
Stylist Melissa Lenihan, 24, describes Knockouts as a “day spa for dudes.”
I dunno. Sounds more like good clean fun with a haircut. “Day spa for dudes” sounds more like a gym with a pool hall on one side, a strip joint on the other, and a sports bar with a full red meat menu and beer list across the street with a tattoo parlor next to that.
* For purposes of procreation, defense, naked imperialistic warmongering, etc. Discuss amongst yourselves whatever else you think is appropriate. You know, now that I think about it, I never saw the little guy’s head whip around like that for “Barney,” “Sesame Street” or “News Hour with Jim Lehrer.”
In accordance with FTC regulations re blogger conflict of interest, I’d like to report that I received no remuneration from “Knockouts” for this gratuitous booby-mongering post. I do, however, receive a regular paycheck from the Boston Herald.
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Topics: hair,sex,shameless opportunism,women
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:33 pm Comments (3) on Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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October 6th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
LOL Jules, your wife would be right.
October 6th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Sounds like “Hooters for Haircuts” to me.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:28 am
Two of my nephews are into ‘heavy metal’ so I keep this vid handy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjizELNwRCg
Cheers