Costumes I Would Regret Even Thinking Of Wearing

Posted by Jonelle Patrick on October 4, 2012 in Made In Japan, WTF Japan? | 2 Comments

What IS this? A rare species of face-eating nudibranch? A faded map of the 18th hole at Pebble Beach?  No! It’s a fake five o’clock shadow!

This is an especially spectacular career-inhibitor if the costume-wearing prankster is a woman! Long, long after you reach what would have been retirement age if you’d ever been able to land a job, photographs of you on the interwebs wearing this gender-bender fake facial stubble will be raising the question that just won’t go away: when she filled out that application, did she check the little box labeled F, or…?

Jonelle Patrick is the author of the Only In Tokyo mystery series, published by Penguin/Intermix.