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    Judges abandon wigs for 'Star Trek' look (Britain)

    BRITISH judges have abandoned a 300-year-old tradition of wearing horsehair wigs to a chorus of mockery from fashion critics and traditionalists, who say the new robes have turned them into Star Trek look-a-likes.

    The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips, felt the old-style wig and gown look was out of touch with the 21st century and thought it was time to go bare-headed.

    So from October, judges hearing civil and family cases in England and Wales will don a new robe designed by Betty Jackson, who also makes "funky British clothes for aspiring funky British girls.''

    They will wear simple black gowns fastened with poppers (snap fasteners) and decorated with gold, red or lilac bands depending on their seniority.

    One paper said the robes would make the wearer look like Disney villain Cruella de Vil

    http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23696454-663,00.html
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    No pics.
    Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
    The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
    The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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        Maybe the Judges would prefer this?
        Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
        The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
        The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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          Couldn't they simply switch to wearing a suit?
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            There is 300 years of tradition in those whigs. I hope they change their minds and keep with tradition. I mean a great many of the common wealth countries still have judges wear whigs.
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            • #7
              Meh, what is tradition anyway?
              Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
              The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
              The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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              • #8
                Maybe they just should start wairing tories ?
                "Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."

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