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| + | <html>But with fewer iconic barber poles gracing Maine's Main Streets, a young man who breaks the stereotypes is hoping to rekindle the appeal of barber shops to a new generation. | ||
| + | Sporting tattoos, loose-fitting clothes, jewelry and a baseball cap, 23-year-old Derrik Vigue doesn't look like an old-time barber. | ||
| + | He can often be seen sitting on the stoop in front of Faded Lines Barber Shop, a business he opened in July on Church Street, exchanging waves with friends as they drive by. | ||
| + | The barber shop is next door to Fine Lines Hair Salon, where his mother and grandmother have been cutting hair together for nearly 25 years. | ||
| + | After Vigue's early interest in a career as a motorcycle repairman didn't pan out, even while working in a retail sales job he didn't love, he never thought he'd become a third-generation hair cutter. | ||
| + | He had a hard time picturing himself entering a profession that, in his experience,[http://wiki.feuerwache.net/wiki/Benutzer:Renepaley#Tamaraws_outlast_Warriors_in_double_OT_to_snap_skid_2 Tamaraws outlast Warriors in double OT to snap skid 2],[http://www.jerseys-online.org/carolina-panthers-online-598_635 Carolina Panthers Jerseys China], was dominated by either women or men over the age of 50. | ||
| + | He changed his mind after a visit to Boston, where he saw a busy barbershop full of vibrant energy, slick as a pompadour and stylish as a Hollywood hipster. | ||
| + | As he watched the suave young barbers cutting hair to the beat of popular music, Vigue saw that, amid a general decline of licensed barbers in Maine, there might be an opportunity for a new kind of barber to emerge and serve people like Vigue young men who care about their appearance but don't feel a cultural connection to the traditional community barbershop. | ||
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| + | It's a new idea in a profession where most of the faces are well-worn. | ||
| + | We're sort of like dinosaurs, said Freeman Buzzell, 72, and known to his customers as Buzzy. He's operated Buzzy's Barber Shop in Madison for 53 years. When I started here in the early '60s, there were five barbers here. I'm the only one left. | ||
| + | It would be easier to count the hairs on Vigue's carefully sculpted head than the haircuts Buzzell has given over the years. | ||
| + | When Buzzell first opened his door,[http://www.jerseys-online.org/cheap-nike-seattle-seahawks-3-wilson-blue-limited-jersey-p-28990.html seattle seahawks 3 jerseys cheap], barbershops were a cultural necessity. | ||
| + | Back then, he said, men stayed away from hair salons in droves, worried their masculinity would be tainted by the feminine aura. | ||
| + | The aversion was so strong, he said, that if a man was picking his wife up from a beauty parlor, you couldn't pay him enough to go inside. | ||
| + | These days, the gender barriers no longer apply, and hair salons are everywhere, he said. Most, including Fine Lines, count many men among their clients. | ||
| + | Buzzell and others in the industry said barbers have also lost ground to chains like Supercuts and Walmart's SmartStyle, which attract a lot of male customers. | ||
| + | In the meantime, after a lifetime of sweeping hair, Maine's barbers are themselves being swept from their shops by the forces of time and age. | ||
| + | According to state records, there were 707 licensed barbers in the state in 2001. The number has has dropped every year since, to 444 in 2012, a decline of 37 percent. | ||
| + | In the last few years alone, a number of community barbers, beloved for their colorful names and personalities, have given their final shave, according to Morning Sentinel archives. | ||
| + | In 2010, Waterville lost 85-year-old Al the Barber, World War II veteran Alcide Fecteau; in 2011, 72-year-old Augusta barber Albenie Dufour, and Fairfield's Jeff the Barber Williams, who ran his shop for 41 years, both died. | ||
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