The Lad's Cut

A patient thirty minutes for a boy twelve and under. We don’t pretend that cutting a kid’s hair is the same as cutting an adult’s hair — they’re different jobs, and the Lad’s Cut is built for the difference.

What’s different

We use a chair booster if your son needs one, and we keep the cut to shears wherever we can. The cuts we do best on lads: a clean side part, a longer textured top, a tidy short-back-and-sides, a school cut. We don’t do skin fades on boys under eight; the line is too sharp for that age.

What to expect

Bring a phone or a book for them. Most kids settle in once they see we aren’t in a hurry, but if your son’s not ready, we will not push him through it. We’ll set the cut down, pour him a glass of water, and try again in a quarter-hour. If it doesn’t happen, the chair is free.

When to come

Saturdays before noon are the busiest hour for kids’ cuts; if your son is shy of crowds, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons are the quietest. Walk-ins are welcome after 3:00 PM Tuesday through Saturday. The first visit is sometimes a sit-in-the-chair-and-look-around with no clipping; that’s twelve dollars instead of twenty-six, and it counts toward the real cut next time.

What it costs

Twenty-six dollars, hair however long. The Lad’s Cut is also the Family Cut discount — book a Lad’s Cut with a Gentleman’s Cut at the same chair and we’ll take ten dollars off the total.