People love dressing up, but not everybody can score a role on stage. Family photo albums are a rich source of images of amateur actors, young and old, pretending for a time to be somebody else. Of course, almost all of these photos would raise eyebrows today for cultural appropriation.
Spot the former Australian Prime Minister lookalike. No, not Mickey Mouse.
Wrong outfits for tennis
That’s not a bible. That’s not a priest . . .
Not breaking any records on this thing
Gender fluidity, circa 1920s
Bloody college students! Causing mischief at an inter-college meeting in Newcastle in the 1960s.
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