The Lady Prefers The Gentlemen - Customers to a gents hairdressing shop in Castle-street, Dundee, think nothing of it when they have a haircut or shave by Mrs. V. Finlayson. Brought up in a barbering family, she helps out on Saturday and other rush periods, and prefers the male to the female side of the business. Lady Prefers Gentlemen. Woman barber Mrs. V. Finlayson prefers shaving and cutting men's hair to giving women permanent waves and sets when working in her family's hairdressing shop in Dundee. Mrs. Finlayson helps other members of her family on Saturdays and in rush periods. December 17, 1953.