the disguise reduced to junk
In Watertown he tried to pawn his fine auburn wig w/ removable chignon and was cursed at in Armenian because the wig had infestations from his own hair below
Context
A fugitive's concealment apparatus decaying into worthlessness. Poor Tony's "fine auburn wig w/ removable chignon" — a modular disguise, the chignon detachable — is now infested and unpawnable, carried uselessly in a shopping bag "with his wig and coat and comely habilements he could neither wear nor pawn" as he "hid himself even more deeply in a dumpster-complex... and resolved to stay hidden there for as long as he could." The persona that once let him pass has become contraband he can neither deploy nor liquidate, and the hiding is now pure fugitive burial, not craft.