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|'''[[Ani DiFranco]]''''|"Back Around"}}
 
A '''Lipstick Mark''' on the collar, is a telltale giveaway that he is cheating. This old trope has its roots in the days when most men wore shirts with collars and women wore lipstick that marked easily. The wife, doing her husband's laundry, finds a pink mark on her husbandshusband's collar and immediately concludes that he has a mistress. When the husband returns from work, he finds that he has been [[Exiled to the Couch]] or [[Defenestrate and Berate|his belongings thrown outside]]. Most of the time in comedies it's [[Not What It Looks Like]]. The stain is ketchup, or the lipstick is from his grandmother pecking him on the cheek. See also [[Affair Hair]], a related trope.
 
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== [[CommercialsAdvertising]] ==▼
* A Carl's Jr. commercial: A woman finds red marks on her boyfriend's collar and starts to throw his stuff out the window (which is [[Defenestrate and Berate|a trope]] itself). The guy appears below, eating a burger and wiping the barbecue sauce on his collar.▼
* Inverted in a Jack-in-the-Box commercial: The wife sees the stain on her husband's shirt and instantly assumes it's dipping sauce. The guy protests saying it's just him having an affair, and then the phone rings. The wife answers, and Jack hurriedly tries to impersonate the lover. ▼
* Inverted in a car commercial where the husband gets home and tries to put fake lipstick marks on himself. His wife sees him and berates him for joyriding in the new car again.▼
 
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In the long-running ''[[Sazae-san]]'' anime, the lipstick mark on the husband's shirt is actually caused by the preteen daughter playing with Sazae's makeup, then wiping it off on the nearest cloth object.
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{{quote|''Man:'' Aha! Lipstick on your collar!
''Woman:'' It's my lipstick! I'm a girl, you idiot! }}
 
▲== [[Commercials]] ==
▲* A Carl's Jr. commercial: A woman finds red marks on her boyfriend's collar and starts to throw his stuff out the window (which is [[Defenestrate and Berate|a trope]] itself). The guy appears below, eating a burger and wiping the barbecue sauce on his collar.
▲* Inverted in a Jack-in-the-Box commercial: The wife sees the stain on her husband's shirt and instantly assumes it's dipping sauce. The guy protests saying it's just him having an affair, and then the phone rings. The wife answers, and Jack hurriedly tries to impersonate the lover.
▲* Inverted in a car commercial where the husband gets home and tries to put fake lipstick marks on himself. His wife sees him and berates him for joyriding in the new car again.
 
== [[Film]] ==
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{{quote|'''The Girl''': I have a message for your wife. Don't wipe it off. If she thinks that's cranberry sauce, tell her she's got cherry pits in her head.}}
 
== [[Live -Action TV]] ==
* On ''[[The X Factor]]'', Simon Cowell had a lipstick mark on his cheek - one of Hope had kissed him earlier.
* On ''[[The Partridge Family]]''
{{quote|'''Danny:''' "I wonder how ''he'' explains lipstick on his collar?"}}
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* During [[Bill Clinton]]'s impeachment, Gary Byrne testified that he advised West Wing Steward Bayani Nelvis to dispose of lipstick -marked towels found in the president's study.
 
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