If General Musharraf does fulfil his promise to slip into civvies, his designated successor as army chief, General Ashfaq Kiyani, has an unenviable task.
Thein Sein, the former general who donned civvies to become president, met her in August, and persuaded her of the sincerity of his reformism.
This is how Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (above, in civvies), whose earlier broadsides against Israel have provoked comparisons to Hitler, cast himself at a recent press conference.
Before he donned civvies to become a reformer, Mr Thein Sein was head of the Triangle Region Military Command from 1997-2001, thethe south-east of Lashio.
Such displays are a surprise to many soldiers who, for decades, were largely hidden from view in Britain, coming out of their barracks in civvies in order to avoid attack by the Irish Republican Army IRAA).
He had not changed into civvies, or taken his things; he still wore his blue prison shirt.
Formerly done by men in uniform, it is more routinely done today by military-intelligence types in civvies.
But when they get there, they often find that there is also a lot that civvies can learn from them.
Gracepoint's Gunn was a little brittle and too polished, even in her civvies.
In return, Steinbrenner gave Franks a blue Yankees jacket, which the General pulled on over his civvies.
