dishevelled

If you are able to, you might be able to pull of a "dishevelled Tom Waits" look.

There was a film with this in, or at least inspired by it. Remember the image in my head of a japanese soldier in dishevelled clothes looking out at the ocean from a bunker.

They find him somewhat dishevelled, the walls covered with scratched calculations, and a neatly severed can in the middle of the room.

It might be acceptable for a coder or social media expert to arrive dishevelled, but people expect more from lawyers.

If you wear an inside out t-shirt and have dishevelled hair, your competence rating is probably going to take a hit, even after a long term exposure.

Ithilien, the garden of Gondor now desolate kept still a dishevelled dryad loveliness.

Ithilean, garden of Gondor now desolate kept still | dishevelled dryad loveliness.

Or something like:“””“I’ve always hated coffee” said Joe Bloggs, sipping his chai latte as he sits somewhat dishevelled in a grey overcoat that insulates him against the wintry London weather.

[edit] I got thinking about what happens when you cross conservatives with anarchists and got an image of dishevelled mud covered people who are mistrustful of interference from the government, but with lots of guns and land and money.

No need for fiction Colin, I'm sure you've heard of the Sabine women:"[They], from the outrage on whom the war originated, with hair dishevelled and garments rent, the timidity of their sex being overcome by such dreadful scenes, had the courage to throw themselves amid the flying weapons, and making a rush across, to part the incensed armies, and assuage their fury; imploring their fathers on the one side, their husbands on the other, 'that as fathers-in-law and sons-in-law they would not contaminate each other with impious blood, nor stain their offspring with parricide, the one their grandchildren, the other their children.