By the 1840s, common law enforced that barristers were not to be heard in court without wigs and gown ... stereotypes of a barrister - male, white, perhaps older - it is helpful to wear the ...

The Registrar has in the letters instructed each lawyer to be fully robbed, which means that they would need to wear a Black Robe, white-collar wing shirts, a flap, and a Barrister's wig.