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* Sometimes, female [[cosplay]]ers dressed as male characters - called crossplayers - will practice this to look more convincing as males. The end result would be a [[Bifauxnen]] quite often. Utilizing [[Sarashi]] to achieve this is fairly common.
* Proper fit for a traditionally draped woman's kimono often calls for the help of Ace bandages or [[Sarashi]]. Pre-war Japanese fashion favored a Grecian column build that often required waist padding, chest binding, and a hip girdle to achieve, even at the time. Women today are (on average) substantially heavier and curvier...and proper fit is accordingly even more difficult to achieve.
* Before women were allowed to serve in military forces, they did this and tried [[Sweet Polly Oliver|to pass it off as being young men]] (because the beard thing tends to be an issue when trying to pass off as an adult male) and thus serve. An effective technique would be to use of a decoy of pretending to be too young to serve, and have someone figure that out, and then think they knew your secret. This charade tended to end if the woman in question was injured, because almost inevitably either their pants or shirt would have to come off...
* Jessica Simpson began her career in show business as a Christian pop singer. During this stage of her career she would often tape down her breasts for performances because her promoters felt that an attractive blonde with D-cup boobs wasn't the best image for a gospel singer.
 
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