Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Style

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“U.S. Supreme Court Justice” and “Fashion Icon” may not seem synonymous, but Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her scrunchie repertoire, and her flock of Instagram fan accounts beg to differ. President Bill Clinton nominated Ginsburg to the Supreme Court in 1993, making her the second female justice to ever join the highest echelon of American law. In the nearly three decades since taking her Supreme Court seat, RBG has become a champion of women’s rights as well as an unintentional pop culture figure—thanks in part to her statement-making sartorial tweaks. In celebration of the Supreme queen’s 87th birthday, CR rounds up her most iconic fashion statements in and out of the courtroom.

While the SCOTUS uniform is genderless and intentionally bland, consisting of an oversized black robe that hides the body and conforms the judges as a single unit, the standard robe is cut to showcase a men’s collar and tie. Ginsburg stylizes the patriarchal oversight with lacy collars and jabots, which have since grown far beyond their one-dimensional purpose. Ginsburg’s embellished collars not only express her femininity in a male-dominated courtroom, but carry dynamic meaning depending on the judge’s mood or position.

Her jabot arsenal, comprised of gifts and purchases from around the world, ranges from a soft white crochet (her personal favorite) to a spiked and studded black collar specifically for presenting a dissenting opinion. She stepped out in the notorious “dissenting collar” the day after President Trump’s election, and wore a similarly prickly spiked necklace for her first official court portrait with a newly-appointed Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

RBG’s jabots have become a symbol of the justice and a source of fascination for feminists and politicians alike. Her collar choice telegraphs her opinion to the courtroom before she even takes a seat, challenges the uniform status quo of the Supreme Court, and makes her femininity indelible in a starkly male environment.

While Ginsburg’s collar collection is splashed across tote bags and protest posters alike, her remix of the Supreme Court uniform doesn’t stop at the neck. The justice constantly rotates clip-on statement earrings, always on display beneath her scrunchie-tied low bun. After first buying them to heal from chemotherapy in 1999, lace gloves have become an RBG staple almost as iconic as her neckwear.

Outside her chambers, RBG leans towards timeless staples that have hardly changed in her expansive career. Her rotating arsenal of classic blazers, pencil skirts, and Ferragamo heels is refreshed with every public appearance, thanks to a seasonal colorway or experimental new material. From black fishnet gloves and cherry red skirt suits to turquoise Chinese silk, Ginsburg has mastered the staple wardrobe while never failing to make headlines with her ensembles. Just last month, she stole the show at the first Woman of Leadership Award ceremony in a pair of silver sparkly heels that almost outshined the inaugural honor being bestowed on art collector and philanthropist Agnes Gund, once again proving her style reigns supreme.

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