Vildy that must have been very distressing for you.
I once dyed my hair blue black over night from brown and went thrift shopping. It was on a week with friends and I went from quite mainstream khaki pants/sweatshirt to a goth/punky look. That was the most dramatic I have done. I can't find a photo with the black gothic clothes (it was a weekday look) but these photos were reasonably close timewise.
The most interesting was not an overnight change but a change of a few years but it must have been radical enough that people that I had known before failed to recognise me. When I first had my baby I was quite overweight and had short blonde hair. I moved to another city for a few years. My hair grew and colour grew out and I lost a considerable amount of weight. I guess with those sort of changes, you naturally change your clothes. I walked past an old colleague and she failed to recognise me. Later at a professional conference I went up to someone I knew quite well (I had travelled with her for work and worked with her) and started talking to her. I would never have done this if I had known that it would cause her so much distress, but she went along with it in confusion. She had been in poor health and when she didn't know who she was talking to, she found it upsetting because she thought her recent health issues were causing memory loss as well. It was also a weird experience for me.
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