wig and falsies

English

Etymology

An allusion to cross-dressing.

Noun

wig and falsies pl (plural only)

1. (colloquial, figurative) An attempt to make something look like something else without significantly altering its core functionality.
   • 1953, Harvey Whipple, Concrete, volume 61, page 39:

     Don't put a fake wig and falsies on your advertised product.

   • 2008 April 21, Charles Moore, “Odysseus Cometh: The Real Successor to Eudora”, in Low End Mac‎^[1], archived from the original on 12 July 2021:

     I am a consummate, dyed-in-the-wool, classic Eudora fan, and Mozilla Thunderbird - or for that matter any three-pane user interface email client dating back to Claris Emailer - is simply not my cup of tea, so dressing T-bird up in a Eudora wig and falsies is not going to cut it for me, or a lot of other Eudora aficionados.