Very important legal question for Malthus and CC

[Barrister]

Okay, you two admitted to me that you do have robes.

So how do you wear your tabs?

There's the collar that goes around the neck, and then the two tabs that hang down.

The evry first time I put on a set of robes, I was taught that the tabs hang down from the top part of the collar, and essentially overlap that collar.

However I usually see most lawysers wear their tabs simply hanging down from the bottom of the collar.

So am I doing it wrong, or are most lawyers doing it wrong?

Your opinion on this urgent question is greatly appreciated.

[Malthus]

I'm not up on this stuff, but I just let them hang down ... 

[Barrister]

I dunno - it just look like they're hanging there limp or something to wear it that way.

[crazy canuck]

The very first time I put on a set of robes, I was taught that the tabs hang down from the top part of the collar, and essentially overlap that collar.

If I understand you correctly this is how I do it.  The Court shirt has a straight collar that ends with two triangular bits pointing down.  I attach my tabs so that they are tied around the mid part of the collar so that from the front the tabs appear to overlap (underneath) with the triangular part of the collar.

I am actually having a bit of a hard time imagining how it would be done otherwise.

[Valmy]

It is so inspiring to see great legal minds at work.

[Barrister]

The very first time I put on a set of robes, I was taught that the tabs hang down from the top part of the collar, and essentially overlap that collar.

If I understand you correctly this is how I do it.  The Court shirt has a straight collar that ends with two triangular bits pointing down.  I attach my tabs so that they are tied around the mid part of the collar so that from the front the tabs appear to overlap (underneath) with the triangular part of the collar.

I am actually having a bit of a hard time imagining how it would be done otherwise.

It has nothing to do with the collar.

Let's try some ASCI art:


I
I
I
\
   \
    \

versus

I\
I \
I  \
     \
      \

where "I" is the tie or collar, and the "\" is the tabby part.

[garbon]

hahaha

[crazy canuck]

The very first time I put on a set of robes, I was taught that the tabs hang down from the top part of the collar, and essentially overlap that collar.

If I understand you correctly this is how I do it.  The Court shirt has a straight collar that ends with two triangular bits pointing down.  I attach my tabs so that they are tied around the mid part of the collar so that from the front the tabs appear to overlap (underneath) with the triangular part of the collar.

I am actually having a bit of a hard time imagining how it would be done otherwise.

It has nothing to do with the collar.

Let's try some ASCI art:


I
I
I
\
   \
    \

versus

I\
I \
I  \
     \
      \

where "I" is the tie or collar, and the "\" is the tabby part.

Oh, ok, none of the above.  I wear my tabs flat and just let them hang.

[Barrister]

So that would be the first option, no?

[Malthus]

It is so inspiring to see great legal minds at work.

One would think this sort of trivia could bring the profession into disrepute on this board - but of course, no such thing is possible. 

Next up: fashions in wigs - is the curled style more "manly"?

[Malthus]

So that would be the first option, no?

I think so - and, if I understand correctly, that's what I do.

[Barrister]

But that was what was decribed to me as, well, wrong.



For the gawkers in this thread not named CC or Malthus, the tabs are the two white things hanging down from the neck.

[Barrister]

It is so inspiring to see great legal minds at work.

One would think this sort of trivia could bring the profession into disrepute on this board - but of course, no such thing is possible. 

Next up: fashions in wigs - is the curled style more "manly"?

You darn well know we don't get to wear wigs.

[crazy canuck]

So that would be the first option, no?

In both options you have the tabs flairing out to some degree. I wear mine flat against the chest but over the vest.  I dont see anyone wearing it so it flairs out at all.

[Malthus]

You darn well know we don't get to wear wigs.

We can if we *want* to.