The scruffy-looking urban studies professor at Chapman University in Orange, Calif.

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' Otherwise, they just end up looking scruffy and inappropriate.

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"The high street was looking pretty scruffy, then we went and applied for this money, " he said.

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Turning up looking too casual or scruffy could cause offence.

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