Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Forum administrators, Interface administrators, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
117,086
edits
Wig, Dress, Accent: Difference between revisions
→Real Life: added example
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (→Comics: -> "Comic Books", copyedits) |
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (→Real Life: added example) |
||
Line 166:
* In a case of Wig Dress Foreign Language, one Allied prisoner broke out of a German prison camp in [[World War II]] by making a fake copy of a German uniform and simply walking out the front door. This was actually extremely common, especially in camps like [[The Alcatraz|Colditz Castle]] where conventional tunnels and wire-cutting were more difficult to pull off. The Colditz Dutch contingent were the acknowledged masters of the technique and they got so good at it that one attempted escape plan was for a prisoner with a strong resemblance to impersonate the camp warrant officer, relieve the guards on a side gate and replace them with other disguised prisoners, [[Refuge in Audacity|to be followed by the entire camp slipping out and down the road]]. It almost worked, only failing because the last guard got chatty and the real NCO came out to reprimand him for socializing on duty.
** This is partly because Dutch uniforms were almost identical to German uniforms, plus the Dutch language and German are similar.
* [[Sacha Baron Cohen]] is famous for dressing up for his various alter egos ([[Borat]],
* To testify in a court case, Stella Rimington (later head of MI5) wore a wig and make-up that made her look about ten years older then she was. When she met the judge undisguised later, he didn't recognize her.
* In the early 1960s, author Lyn Tornabene (then in her thirties) went undercover in a middle American high school to get a handle on the generation gap that was even then starting to split American culture, using only a change of wardrobe and a pair of glasses to hide the fact she wasn't a teenager. According to the book she wrote about the experience, ''[[I Passed as a Teenager]]'', she was stunned by how ''easy'' it was to masquerade as half her age -- no teacher ever actually ''looked'' at her closely enough to pierce her rudimentary disguise, and the girls she met in her classes admired how "mature" she looked without her glasses.
{{reflist}}
| |||