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A character or actor disguises their gender. For some (frequently contrived) reason they then have to re-disguise it as their real gender. And then re-re-disguise as their fake gender, and so on until they collapse into a singularity of androgyny. Often, another character will comment on [[Your Costume Needs Work|how unconvincing the second act of crossdressing is]], revealing how completely he was fooled by the first.
Often this overlaps with [[Paper
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* Touma & Mako-chan in ''[[Minami-ke]]''. Touma in particular has issues with this since some people around her (i.e. Atsuko) keep geting confused about what gender she actually is.
* ''[[Penguin Revolution]]'':
** Recursive Crossdressing becomes an ongoing issue for Yukari Fujimaru after she agrees to become Ryo Katsuragi's personal agent. Because Ryo's talent agency doesn't employ women as agents, Yukari is obliged to [[Wholesome Crossdresser|pretend to be a man]] while acting as Ryo's agent, while at the same time she continues to attend high school as herself. Since she has nowhere else to live, she moves in with Ryo and his roommate Ayaori... who works for the same talent agency and attends the same high school. Yukari and Ryo get around this issue by telling Ayaori that, like Ryo himself, "Yutaka" has been instructed to [[Wholesome Crossdresser|attend school disguised as a girl]]. Fortunately for both Ryo and Yukari, Ayaori's [[Blind Without
** A later chapter features an event hosted by the Peacock where the talent managers dress in drag, including Yukari.
* In ''[[Princess Knight]]'', Sapphire must disguise "himself" with a blonde wig and gown to impersonate a girl when she wants to woo Prince Frank.
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* The [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] operetta ''[[Princess Ida]]'' has men all-too-ready to crossdress as women, in order to slip into the women's college, where most of the opera takes place. In Gilbert's original play, ''The Princess'', the men were played by women actresses, and after the recursive crossdressing, then spent most of the play dressed as women.
* In ''Moby Dick! The Musical'', the Headmistress in the framing device is played by a man in drag. She then crossdresses (and goes back into a tenor/baritone range) to play Captain Ahab.
* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy6jgch8IVI The Friend Who Dressed]'' takes this to a ridiculous level, culminating in the main character being {{spoiler|a boy disguised as a girl disguised as a boy disguised as a ''[[Paper
* This trope was very common in Spanish classic theatre (contemporary of Sir William), notably in Lope de Vega and Calderón de la Barca plays. Calderón's ''La Dama del Aire'' is possibly the best example.
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