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While in most western media, the stereotypical burglar mask is either a ski mask/beanie combination or a domino mask, in Japan, stereotypical burglars wear a tenugui hand towel around their head that is tied just under their nose.

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  • Burglar Mask
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  • While in most western media, the stereotypical burglar mask is either a ski mask/beanie combination or a domino mask, in Japan, stereotypical burglars wear a tenugui hand towel around their head that is tied just under their nose.
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  • While in most western media, the stereotypical burglar mask is either a ski mask/beanie combination or a domino mask, in Japan, stereotypical burglars wear a tenugui hand towel around their head that is tied just under their nose. This "mask" is derived from ancient Japanese romantic practices, when young unmarried women were not to engage in relations with young men outside of social settings. To get around this rule, during night time visits or romantic "booty calls", the young man would wear a "burglar mask" so that, if they were caught or their activities were later discovered, the young woman could claim lack of knowledge of his identity and save face. However, while the hand towel does distort the wearer's appearance somewhat, it is still reasonably easy to identify the "burglar's" identity. Over time, the classical "burglar mask" became comic shorthand for "Incompetent Sneaky Person" and became an identifiable staple for burglars in comedic media.
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