The portrait, above, is of an early nineteenth century American lawyer. A number of years ago when former Chief Justice Rehnquist decided to add adornments to his judicial gown, I received a telephone call from a reporter asking about the history of legal and judicial dress. I was able to give her a reasonable answer based on a file which I keep. Here are a few sources on the subject:
--W.N. Hargreaves-Mawdsley, A History of Legal Dress in Europe Until the Eighteenth Century (Oxford:OUP, 1963)
--J.H. Baker, "History of the Gowns of the English Bar," Costume, no.9 (1975), pp.15-21
--Charles M. Yablon, "Judicial Drag: An Essay on Wigs, Robes, and Legal Change," Wisconsin Law Review (1995), pp.1129-1153
--Susan L'Engle, "Addressing the Law: Costume as Signifier in Medieval Legal Miniatures," in
D. Koslin & J. Snyder, Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress. Objects, texts, Images
(N.Y.: Palgrave, 2002), pp. 137-172
For those wishing to pursue this subject further a good starting point is:
--Valerie Cumming, Understanding Fashion History (London: Batsford, 2004)
1 comment:
hi,i am glad to meet you here,i am a student from china.and you can call me "Xiao-Zeng".
i am creating a article about "judicial ritual",so what you said in this paper is useful for me,but there may be some slip:"History of the Gowns Worn at the English Bar",not that "History of the Gowns in the English Bar"
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