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* In the ''Shadow'' pulp novels, recurring character Myra Reldon is Caucasian but easily able to pass as Chinese. Walter Gibson specifies that she uses tape to create a fake epicanthic fold, but doesn't explain how she turns her brown eyes black—it's a bit early for contact lenses in this time period. |
* In the ''Shadow'' pulp novels, recurring character Myra Reldon is Caucasian but easily able to pass as Chinese. Walter Gibson specifies that she uses tape to create a fake epicanthic fold, but doesn't explain how she turns her brown eyes black—it's a bit early for contact lenses in this time period. |
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* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Double Star]]'', the narrator follows the theory that a thin disguise can be the best. He makes a few small changes to Dak Broadbent's appearance—posture, mainly—and predicts that any acquaintance seeing him would say, "That guy looks a lot like Dak Broadbent. Of course, he isn't Dak. But he ''looks'' like him." And the observers' inability to pin down ''why'' they were so certain it wasn't really Broadbent would actually make them still ''more'' certain. |
* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Double Star]]'', the narrator follows the theory that a thin disguise can be the best. He makes a few small changes to Dak Broadbent's appearance—posture, mainly—and predicts that any acquaintance seeing him would say, "That guy looks a lot like Dak Broadbent. Of course, he isn't Dak. But he ''looks'' like him." And the observers' inability to pin down ''why'' they were so certain it wasn't really Broadbent would actually make them still ''more'' certain. |
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* The heroine of ''Blind Waves'' by Steven Gould was being hunted by a criminal conspiracy, so the police disguised her. No accent, but a wig, sexy dress, and falsies that made her seem '''very''' buxom. Her own mother didn't recognize her. On the other hand, the male lead knew her at first glance, despite not expecting to see her there and having known her for only about four days. Possibly because [[Fourth Date Marriage|he'd already bought the ring]]. "They've been a very ''intense'' four days." |
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