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1538 points gaws | 2 comments | 06 Nov 24 21:23 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bravura ◴[06 Nov 24 21:52 UTC] No.42070051[source]▶
"Wear a tuxedo for your ID photos." - Glenn O'Brien (TV Party, Downtown 81, the Style Guy)
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xattt ◴[06 Nov 24 22:00 UTC] No.42070156[source]▶
I’ve always thought to go unkempt and unshaven.

This is so that I would be recognized from my passport if I was detained for several months in a sketchy country.

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1. sph ◴[07 Nov 24 11:31 UTC] No.42075743[source]▶
I was thinking the neutral-to-serious face requirement in passport photos is so that you can be easily recognised when you're being detained at the airport and asked to wait for 3 hours in an interrogation room. That's exactly what one would look like.
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2. lazide ◴[07 Nov 24 12:57 UTC] No.42076239[source]▶
Or, like another poster said an Irish passport officer said - ‘dour’.