Or can you just wear a suit like a normal person?
Also, do they wear foppish powdered wigs in Scotland too? Seems like they would have less affinity for that kind of idiocy.
they still wear them
If you wear beach shorts, a Hawaiian short, and flip flops to an American court, the judge is going to perceive this as disrespect. If you’re one of the attorneys in the matter, he or she possibly more likely to rule against you, or have the bailiff remove you until you are attired properly for his courtroom.
So the dress code is about respecting the judge. Those powdered wigs are a sign of respect to Her Majesty’s representative, the judge. He or she doesn’t have to throw you out if you wear a nice suit instead, or be biased against you, but it’s one of those things where if the judge is biased they won’t admit it, so…
my link says they are not required now for civil cases but they remain for criminal cases
The whole wig thing is gradually being phased out. Supreme Court justices wear no legal dress anyway and the relaxed dress code also applies to advocates appearing before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Judges and lawyers appearing in criminal courts still wear traditional wigs and gowns but they can be dispensed with in cases involving children.
They seem to be working towards dispensing with the “fancy dress” from the top down, but my impression is that the lawyers themselves are reluctant to lose the uniform that distinguishes them from common mortals.
Say what?
Not seeing anything foppish there. No wig, and the kilt is a garment of mighty warriors.
Like these two?
I like the wigs, personally.
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Never had to wear one have you?
Criminal Courts.
Magistrates. No wig gown
Crown Court: Wig and Gown
Court of Appeal: Wig and gown
UK SC: Business suit.
Civil Courts
County Courts: Business Suit
High Court: Depends on the division, but usually a gown sometimes both. Business suit in the Family Division
Court of Appeal: Gown only
UK SC: Business suit
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I believe it’s the other way around. Cartoonists choose to dress their cartoon characters as English court judges and barrister.
Can you name a mighty warrior who fought in a kilt?
Nothing wrong with a kilt by itself, but wearing a tie of the same material and pattern as the suit is one of my only “fashion don’ts”. Unless you think David S. Pumpkins is a style icon. 
The small kilt didnt come around until the 1700’s.
William “Bill” Millin on Sword Beach, at the Normany landing on D-day.
Millin, whom Lovat had appointed his personal piper during commando training at Achnacarry, near Fort William in Scotland, was the only man during the landing who wore a kilt – it was the same Cameron tartan kilt his father had worn in Flanders during World War I – and he was armed only with his pipes and the sgian-dubh, or “black knife”, sheathed inside his kilt-hose on the right side. In keeping with Scottish tradition, he wore no underwear beneath the kilt. He later told author Peter Caddick-Adams that the coldness of the water took his breath away.
Huh, 20th century. It’s my belief that the myth of kilt as a mighty battle garment is a modern invention.
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I kind of think a ‘mighty warrior’ needs to be armed and fight the enemy. So I guess whether you consider him to count as one would depend on whether you think the bagpipes are a weapon…
Bagpipes are considered an instrument of war…
…crime.