Nothing proves the power of fashion like seeing it become a matter of life and death for spies trying to hide their identities.
Author:Anna GragertUpdated:Jan 14, 2020Original:Jan 14, 2020No one understands the power of fashion to communicate — and conceal — better than Jonna Mendez.
"In all my years of working, shoes were the number one thing [that marked people as foreign]," Mendez says. "It's either American or it's not... We wear brand new, blaring white sneakers." "We could take off their tie, unbutton their shirt, maybe one button too many, put on some sort of awful gold chain, remove their wedding ring, so you can see that they have a wedding ring, but it's not there. There's that dent in the finger," she says. "Splash a little bit too much cologne on them, put on a couple of tattoos or a piercing… it takes nothing to completely change people's impression of that guy on the street.
"We had a hard hat like you'd see on a construction site. We had a red kerchief. We had a big rolled-up piece of paper. And the idea was that if you put that hard hat on and the kerchief around your neck, everyone who saw you at the construction site would assume that you were a laborer," says Mendez.
She goes on to say that an easy way for a woman to change her appearance is to switch out her jewelry: "If she wears a really quiet, small gold necklace and little hoops, you put on some chunky costume jewelry — something she would never wear — and jazz up her makeup a lot, she can just disappear." Looking to get noticed outside the shows at fashion week, or hoping to blend into a sea of faces at an event where your scary ex-boss is likely to be present? The colors you wear have a big role to play in how effectively you're able to do so.
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