The English are Wig-Happy
I got a surprising amount of pro-wig feedback in response to the link about English judicial wigs below. Natalie Solent, in that regard, makes the following point:
I like the wigs. As I-forget-who said, "are our lives so full of colour and drama that we must set out to make them greyer and more boring?" Finally the wigs and other anachronistic regalia might - and now the edge comes into my voice and it all gets a bit less jolly - they might remind some of our trendy modern judges that the law, including trial by jury, is their entailed inheritance not their bloody productivity bonus.