This lawyer's life: Radical legal style

I was once against counsel who wore jodhpurs in court. It was a disconcerting experience; her jacket was all business but below the waist she was a walking Jilly Cooper novel an all winking thrusting stallions and mounting fillies country weekend fest.

Bizarrely perhaps I finally erased the discombobulating image from my mind recently by watching lawyers wear Pom Pom slippers and slinky cat suits (not together) as they strutted down the catwalk. I also horrified a colleague by saying I understood why a couple 'stole' a child helped Rumpole get to the ball and learnt that joining Isis is often just teenagers sticking two fingers up at family society and the world.

Yes it's been an interesting time since my last article.

Let me explain.

Taking the advice given to Alice I'll start at the beginning.

If manners maketh the man how much do clothes make the lady lawyer? 

I'll leave male lawyers out of this because their court attire doesn't vary that much. A 'fun' tie or 'funky' socks might occasionally *ahem* rock a court case but generally it's the same old same old....

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