Fake moustache

In Ancient Egypt, most men were clean-shaven (real facial hair being a signifier of low social status).

Pharaohs, however, often wore elaborate false metal beards, linking them with Osiris, the god of the afterlife.

[5]: 71  A key witness, Louis J. Weichmann, commented that he "thought no honest person had a reason to wear a false mustache".

The New York Herald Tribune reported in 1963 that customers were primarily "young boys for fun or to 'virilize' themselves" as well as "wives who give them to their husbands".

[9] In many forms of popular media, the use of a fake moustache as an unconvincing disguise is a commonly-used trope.