How do you think the sugar bowl is used as a disguise item?

[Optimism is my Phil-osophy]

Now, as I believe that inside Esme's sugar bowl there is a kind of whistle that can invoke the ferocious animal in question-shaped form, I believe that several fake sugar bowls have been used to impose fear on members of the incendiary side. As they do not know exactly where the real sugar bowl is, they can observe some volunteer so a sugar bowl and decide not to attack this person. I think that's why Lemony asked for his wedding to have several sugar bowls. I also think Esme, when she was in possession of the sugar bowl, had the same idea for her wedding. What do you think?

[Dante]

That doesn't seem like a disguise, exactly, since the principle behind the other disguises is not to be recognised or identified as a member of a secret organisation by members of the general public. It seems likely instead that the sugar bowl was meant to be used to contain evidence and other suspicious items which volunteers didn't want members of the general public to set eyes on, an all-purpose use implied by the requested presence of multiple sugar bowls at Beatrice and Esmé's weddings. This would allow evidence to publicly change hands without arousing public suspicion.

[Hermes]

Note that the passage doesn't actually say the SB is a disguise item; it says that for Various Finery Disguises you should have a disguise kit (required) and a sugar bowl (optional). I would take it that this means, as Dante says, that an SB is something disguised volunteers, who can't communicate openly, can use to pass secret messages and evidence.

The question how we can reconcile the single sugar bowl we know of from the main series, and the many sugar bowls seemingly referred to in TUA and TPPuzzles, is certainly puzzling. The obvious answer is that the single sugar bowl is just one of the many sugar bowls, which happened to contain something especially important; but the bit in TPP about the search for a suitable container doesn't seem to fit that. So that does indeed suggest that the many SB's are somehow modelled on the single SB, and this theory would be a good way of explaining why: still, Dante is right that it doesn't quite fit the notion of disguise.

[Optimism is my Phil-osophy]

I have to recognize that Dante 's way of thinking makes a lot of sense. Sugar bowls should generally be used to store information. After all, VFD has more to do with information management than fighting evil. Still, the sugar bowl that belonged to Esme must have been used to hold a type of weapon. Something almost as dangerous as the MM fungus. Esme kept something dangerous in her sugar bowl, and from then on, this particular sugar bowl came to be referred to as "the sugar bowl".

[Foxy]

I think the sugar bowl can be in disguise hiding in plain sight.

I would use the sugar bowl as a disguise during a tea party. Hopefully no one asks for sugar.