This was vital because on the outward journey they dressed simply, wearing not a single item of jewellery – not even a wristwatch. On the return trip, however, these ordinary-looking women were transformed into fur-clad ‘overdressed English girls with a taste for slightly too much jewellery’.26 As neither of the sisters had pierced ears, they never carried that type of earring, knowing that this was precisely the sort of discrepancy the German officials had been trained to spot.
