Which brings me to judges, robes and wigs. There’s no question that Kenya’s legal profession is tortured by the question of dress. What should lawyers and judges wear as official business dress?

But English judges also wore colorful robes and ornate wigs—a tradition that was not adopted in the United States. Some speculate that the Supreme Court began with more colorful attire ...

where judges and lawyers are expected to wear gowns and the colonial-judges’ wig, one would have expected her portrait to be traditional and conservative, and with many protocols. However ...

Barristers and judges, however, were late to the peruke party. The first widespread cases of members of the judiciary sporting the wig didn’t appear until around 1685, as the rest of society was ...