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Spikins goes a long way to explaining why all successful fraudsters and con men are well groomed Schlipsträger and why scruffy, though notoriously honest engineers never succeed in public office. It remains to be shown, whether disregarding these extremes grooming and focus on externalities are useful proxies for trustworthiness — several results tend to suggest the opposite. Insofar as success is determined by superiors, may the willingness to submit to the meaningless dictates of fashion signal an unswerving follower unlikely to challenge authority in other ways?