The same body can be classified as different colors depending on how it’s dressed.

Evidence

The Latin American material shows that, for example, the same individual dressed shabbily and smartly will be identified with different color terms that locate the person on a scale between black and white. These terms are not dependent on phenotype alone, because the context of somatic features alters people’s classification - and even perhaps perception - of these features. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3659

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses the usual assumption that racial classification is fixed by biology; connects to the chapter’s larger claim that phenotype itself is culturally constructed. — connects to: White-part multiracials typically claim the non-white side unless their appearance passes for white — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 120
• SHARE: A Latin Americanist colleague would relish the specific case of a person’s color classification shifting with dress context.