Hair Salons
Gentlemen's Shop & Shave Parlour
About Gentlemen's Shop & Shave Parlour
Barbering keeps a narrower focus than a full salon and a different pace with it: shorter cuts, clipper work, necklines, beards, and in shops that carry the older tradition, a hot towel and a straight razor. Gentlemen's Shop & Shave Parlour is at 2902 31 Ave, a block off the main downtown Vernon street and well inside the walkable core.
What a barber shop actually offers varies enough to be worth a quick call before you go. Some run entirely on walk ins and a chair by the window, some book by appointment only, and plenty do both with different rules on a Saturday than on a slow midweek morning. Beard trims and shaves take longer than a standard cut and are more likely to need a slot held for them. If you are bringing a child in for a first haircut, or want a clipper length matched to what you had last time, mention it when you book so the right amount of time is set aside.
The core here is compact enough that this is an errand you can stack with others, a coffee, a bank, something from a shop two doors along, without moving the car. Those blocks sit on the flat below East Hill, so getting around on foot is easy in most weather, and the sidewalks stay busier than a city of this size might suggest, because the whole North Okanagan comes in to do its shopping and everyone parks once.
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In the Downtown Vernon neighbourhood of Vernon.
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