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I shutter to think of all those poor kids getting their hair hacked just to save a buck.Why not just leave it alone and all will be well and the sky won't fall:)Comments?
Mârk
Here is a better idea: if your kid wants to make a good
impression how about letting his hair grow long instead of
hacking it off.
But then i'm biased. And I let my hair grow when I was in school all those years ago much to the chagrin of the school
administrators. I never got a haircut in the days just
before school started.
When I was in school all those years ago I started growing my hair in 1964 and eventually got it to waist length later in my
school career.
Of course you realize this is an attempt to get the parents and
kids into the store so they'll buy their school clothes while they are in the store.
Hi Mark,
I think this is just a scam to get people into their hair butchery. They save you money 1 time in order to make money off you many times in the future. Bad deal I say!
By the way your hair is looking awesome with the henna! I liked it just fine without though!
Take care, Ted
Mârk, I had that same thought upon first seeing this advert. Poor kid. His beautiful hair sacrificed on the altar of cheap advertizing.
This ad pissed me off as well. I never shop at JC Penny's and never will in the future.
As bad as this ad is I would point out that the competition is
hurting big time and may not be around much longer. Sears/K Mart
is hurting big time, we may well be in a situation a few years from
now when Wal-mart is the only one left, JC Penny/Kmart/Sears are gone, Those are the major playars in this part of the US of A. We have no Kohls or Taget near by, so that leaves Walmart with
a monopoly. Think hard, do you really want to stop shopping
at JC Penny? I find this ad distasteful but i find monopolys distasteful too. Alot of stores have gone under in past years
and i'd hate to see JC Penny/Sears/Kmart go too even with this ad.
I don't like the fact that this scheme by JC Penny implies that if your child is long haired when he starts school next month he will not make a good impression.What on earth is wrong with that boy with the curly locks in that ad that is so horrible?They had a video clip on their web site showing a boy shaved bald after his free haircut!I defy anyone to say that butchery looked good on that kid.
I hear what you say about having Wally World as a monopoly but these kind of stores come and go.How many of your remember Bradlees,Caldor,Korvettes,Two Guys....should I go on?I wouldn't be shocked if the big W sees the same fate someday.After all how much garbage from China can a family absorb?Sorry about the rant but you got me going.LOL.Cheers
Mârk
Bradlees and Caldor were the only stores we had here, both have
since gone out of business. Leaves Walmart with a virtual
monopoly after putting all the smaller businesses out of business.
Well I actually heard all those dollar stores are cutting into Walmart's business.There's only so much of the pie to take a slice from.
Mârk
Excerpt we don't have any "dollar" stores around here. Not one.
So I'd have to burn a lot of gas to save a buck at a dollar store.
fuck corporate America and their clean cut propaganda
As bad as that ad is, at least it looks like it isn't gender-biased. Based on the presence of barettes, I "think" that's a girl on the left in the picture, but with her back turned, you really can't say for sure.
You are likely correct in that assumption, about the gender, but I received a print ad in my Sunday newspaper and it showed the same pic minus the girl on the left.Also the online website had a video that showed a boy, in the aftermath, that was basically shaved close to bald.Didn't see any shaved girls in the vid.I realize this is just a gimmick to get parents in the store to buy stuff for their kids but it shows the biased towards boys supposed to be having short hair for back to school.I see nothing sinister about that curly haired boy in that barber chair.Cheers
Mârk
The clippers over the top of that poor kid's head and the message implies to me that they are saying that he would look much better with a buzzcut than a full head of hair and I have never known anyone who had clippers taken to their mane end up with anything other than a military style type buzzcut.
I long for the return of the days when longer styles were encouraged and military styles were frown upon by hairstylists.
Hey Mârk,
...don't think this kid got his hair cut... think I just saw him yesterday in another commercial during the Olympics for Hershey's chocolates or something. That curly red hair is certainly hard to miss :p !!!
Sincerely,
Eric
Hi Eric,
Well that's a relief as to shave those curls off would be an absolute crime.I just took offense to the ad implying that if a kid,such as the one pictured,goes back to class looking like that he'll make a bad first impression.As far as I'm concerned the only impression that matters is your own of yourself:)Cheers my friend.
Mârk
Hey Mârk,
Yeah, you're right, it is a crime and a person should totally be him (or her)self instead of caving into societal or... even parental pressures :p . I just guess when I looked at the ad, I saw it as commercial propaganda - come and buy our stuff :p ! A grain of salt, I try to take things ^_~ ... until it comes to someone telling me to cut my own hair, then I really hit the roof :p heh~
Until later ^_^ ,
Eric
That boy on the right look terrified. Hopefully he got to keep his hair. Buzzcuts look so awful.
Scott