Lucky for the company, they don’t appear to have hit any trees

Well, once one makes big headlines, and clicks, the media realizes it’s been a neglected source of revenue.

Grow it all out and bring a razor. Pass for a beggar until you see the local style. Also just a useful item.

Also of course it’s a lot easier if you appear male and white (or majority race for the context) but your point is good

Levi Strauss and Jacob W. Davis started marketing their riveted jeans to Gold Rush miners in 1873, so… And your t-shirt would pass as underwear, though you’d want to add a flannel work shirt or something for more decency. Add work boots and a wrench and you could probably get in anywhere, even a much more formal place than those clothes indicate, if you mutter something about the drains…