Japanese salarymen looking for a quick shape up can now get themselves jazzed up in a jiffy thanks to a nifty new speed grooming service, according to Sunday Mainichi
full story @ mainichi daily

so the basic story is this: a company called menza has set up some booths around central tokyo for japanese sarariman (salary men). kuse-oyaji (stinky old man) uses his mobile to access menza’s website to locate the booth closest to his current location, and there he gets checked up on various things from creases on his suit to whether his’s got an adequately “smiling face” or not…

// this is my visual interpretation of what it’d be like to be in a menza booth… but unfortunately for me, i’ll never find out… until they open “womenza” :(

my favourite part is this:

Menza.jp employees all line up to send off customers, who can choose whether their farewell will be given in the form of a bow, a wave goodbye or high fives.

gotta love the flexibility in things ;)

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