My boyfriend and I just moved to Center City, and are unfamiliar about where to find certain things. I had some help finding some good salons in the area, but my boyfriend just wants a basic, no frills haircut, preferably cheaper than $30. Are there any places around the Rittenhouse Square area like that?

Sulimay's at Marlborough and Girard. $12 fantastic cut. May be farther than you'd like to go, but MUCH better than the Chop Shop.

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Seriously... you can get a $30 or so hair cut at Cut, next to Woody's gay bar.

The owner is gay, his two stylists are straight. I go there; they're good people.

Click here for directions:
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If you are willing to take the subway out to Jersey, there is this amazing old school barber shop in Haddonfield.

It is $15 for a hair cut and they do the whole traditional one complete with hot shaving cream and a straight razor along the edges at the end.

I am not sure of the name of it, but it is on the opposite side of the street from the subway station on King's Highway on the same side as something that looks like a Greek temple (possibly some sort of Masonic lodge?). There is another barber shop across the street. They have a barber pole on the sidewalk by the curb out front.

If your gonna take public transit, you might as well go up to Northeast Philly. There's a $6.00 haircut place on Cottman Avenue around Oakley Street and a bunch of other cheap good ones as well.

Downstairs in Suburban Station there is a barber named Vince who operates a chair in a women's salon called Profiles. He charges $20 and he is an old-school barber who gives a no-frills haircut and even uses a straight-edge razor on the back of the neck and the sideburns. Terrific barber, with a genuine Italian accent to boot!
He is off on Wednesdays. He is also going to be out of town pretty much the entire month of July, unfortunately.

Chop Shop on South St is fine, only $10 if you don't mind which stylist you get, and they have never butchered my hair too badly.

If you have enough time and want it cut by a student, try Jean madeline-Aveda institutes.

http://www.jeanmadeline.com/jmi_locations.html

Some good suggestions here:

http://www.phillyblog.com/philly/ask...rber-shop.html