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This NY Times blog had a brief mention the other day about the end of the 300-year-old tradition of wearing wigs and robes in some kinds of court proceedings in Britain. (Ignore the other half of the NYT blog post, which tries to make some sort of tenuous link to Muslim hijab dress code)
As that ITV article notes, barrister wigs like the one shown above are premium items sold by high-end speciality "legal outfitters" like Stanley Ley. Like most of the pomp-and-ceremony that the British revel in, the traditions stem from the high styles of the late 17th and 18th centuries. The garb will no longer be required for civil and family court, though will still be used in criminal court.
Anyone else find that this makes them instantly flash on the "Poofy Judges" sketch from Monty Python, where the judges were wearing racy women's underwear underneath their robes?
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