BY MATT HERSH

A local man was arrested on Monday, June 25, after stripping naked at a local salon known for stylists who wear provocative outfits.

Kevin Bean, 48, of 40 Main St., walked into the Lather & Lace salon around 6:30 p.m., where he removed his pants and shirt inside a bathroom, police officials said.

Bean emerged from the bathroom and a female salon employee asked him to get dressed  and leave. 

“He came out in his underwear,” said Deputy Police Chief William Ganley. “The stylists told him to leave and that he would not be getting a haircut.”

She turned her back to him and when she turned back around, Bean was completely nude.

Employees told him again to get dressed and leave the salon, which he did. Bean was immediately locked out of the building and the police were called.

Bean was still outside the salon when police arrived. He was charged with misdemeanor counts of indecent exposure and lewdness. He was later freed on personal recognizance, Ganley said.

Since the salon opened in January, there have been no other calls for police to respond there, Ganley said.

The business was opposed by a few residents in town who didn’t like the idea of scantily clad women cutting hair in the community.

Still, business owner Peter Carlino received no opposition from town officials after he assured them that the stylists did not dress like strippers.  Rather, they wear suggestive Halloween-like costumes.

Though the business did not have to go before the Planning Board because it replaced another salon, it had town officials looking into the definition of a sexually oriented business.

Staff members at Lather & Lace said they had no comment on the incident.