diff --git a/PROJECT.md b/PROJECT.md
index 0c31397..a9166c5 100644
--- a/PROJECT.md
+++ b/PROJECT.md
@@ -491,6 +491,20 @@ zombie (now an occasional opponent, `TUNE.racketEvery`, not the every-game fixtu
   `RETURNED`, `DOUBLE KILL`) is a footnote to something you already watched happen. Sharing the loud
   FACE with the milestone cards is right; sharing their SIZE made every footnote read as a milestone.
 
+## Session log: the look stops lying (2026-08-29, Oliver: "the man with a pink shirt")
+
+After a reload with the women's tour picked, the live-player preview showed THE MAN from behind
+in her kit colour — and the woman, when she did show, stood a head shorter. Two root causes:
+
+- **drawLook's fallback satisfied the retry poll.** `n_idle1_f || p_idle1_f || p_idle1` drew
+  whichever loaded first and returned true — the caller's 200 ms poll stopped on the lie and the
+  stand-in stuck. It still draws the stand-in (better than a blank) but returns done only when
+  the WANTED frame drew.
+- **The 96px canvas width-bound the contain fit.** Both front sheets are 224 tall, but hers is
+  127 wide against his 114 (she reaches further — the TOURS note), so contain on 96 shrank her
+  10% more than him. The three look canvases are 128 wide now; both bodies are height-bound and
+  stand equally tall.
+
 ## Session log: training pays a quarter, the bar wears its endpoints (2026-08-29, the batch's two discussions, both go)
 
 - **THE TRAINING COURT PAYS A QUARTER.** Zero pay made it feel pointless in a meta game (his
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index d2b6574..fc07a76 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ if (location.hostname !== 'splatter-tennis.wuwi.one' && !window.Capacitor?.isNat
            where you can watch it land. Kit and skin rows are built in main.js from the tables. -->
       <h3 id="s01">01 · PLAYER</h3>
       <div id="who">
-        <canvas id="look" width="96" height="224"></canvas>
+        <canvas id="look" width="128" height="224"></canvas>
         <div id="whoCtl">
           <div id="tours"></div>
           <u class="swlab">KIT<i id="kitName"></i></u>
@@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ if (location.hostname !== 'splatter-tennis.wuwi.one' && !window.Capacitor?.isNat
       </div>
       <h3>THE BODY</h3>
       <div id="who2">
-        <canvas id="pLook" width="96" height="224"></canvas>
+        <canvas id="pLook" width="128" height="224"></canvas>
         <div id="pCtl">
           <div id="pTours"></div>
           <u class="swlab">KIT<i id="pKitName"></i></u>
@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ if (location.hostname !== 'splatter-tennis.wuwi.one' && !window.Capacitor?.isNat
     <div id="card">
       <div class="hdr"><button class="chev" id="cdBack">&lt;</button><h2 id="cdName">YOUR PLAYER</h2></div>
       <div id="cdTop">
-        <canvas id="cdLook" width="96" height="224"></canvas>
+        <canvas id="cdLook" width="128" height="224"></canvas>
         <div id="cdMeta">
           <img id="cdBadge" alt="">
           <u id="cdLeague"></u>
@@ -871,6 +871,6 @@ if (location.hostname !== 'splatter-tennis.wuwi.one' && !window.Capacitor?.isNat
     </div>
   </div>
 </div>
-<script type="module" src="src/main.js?v=335"></script>
+<script type="module" src="src/main.js?v=336"></script>
 </body>
 </html>
diff --git a/src/render.js b/src/render.js
index 5a0cd0f..e82a5ec 100644
--- a/src/render.js
+++ b/src/render.js
@@ -1778,9 +1778,13 @@ function PS(name) {
 // off the back of a head was the best the art allowed while every player frame was a back view; the
 // moment the front existed, Oliver asked for it here. It is the same kit, the same palette and the
 // same tint pass, so the promise above still holds — only the side you are standing on changes.
-// Returns false while the sprites are still loading, so the caller knows to come back.
+// Returns false while the sprites are still loading, so the caller knows to come back — and
+// "still loading" includes DRAWING A FALLBACK: the women's front frame arriving after the men's
+// used to satisfy this with the wrong body (a man in her kit colour), and the caller's retry
+// poll stopped on the lie. A stand-in is drawn (better than a blank) but never reported done.
 export function drawLook(cv2, t, k, sk) {
-  const img = SPR['n_idle1' + (t.sfx || '')] || SPR['p_idle1' + (t.sfx || '')] || SPR.p_idle1;
+  const want = SPR['n_idle1' + (t.sfx || '')];
+  const img = want || SPR['p_idle1' + (t.sfx || '')] || SPR.p_idle1;
   if (!img) return false;
   const out = tinted('look' + (t.sfx || ''), img, k, sk, t.kit, TINT.kit);
   const g = cv2.getContext('2d');
@@ -1789,7 +1793,7 @@ export function drawLook(cv2, t, k, sk) {
   const s = Math.min(cv2.width / out.width, cv2.height / out.height);
   const w = Math.round(out.width * s), h = Math.round(out.height * s);
   g.drawImage(out, Math.round((cv2.width - w) / 2), cv2.height - h, w, h);
-  return true;
+  return !!want;
 }
 
 // BOUNCE_IDLE.dx/apex are measured off the DRAWN PALM (see config), so a tour whose player reaches