(Later, Ginsburg wrote the fellow a letter of recommendation for law school.)ĭress is one issue on which RBG can be a conservative. “Ginsburg chose to wear a straight skirt and high heels,” Toobin reported. “Because of the snow on the ground and Ginsburg’s outfit, the driver, who usually worked in the clerk’s office, had to lift the tiny justice into the air and deposit her in the car. According to Jeffrey Toobin’s The Nine, during a massive snowstorm, RBG and the other justices were picked up in jeeps for oral argument. Read on for an excerpt from the new book Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsberg about RBG’s style, and click through the slideshow to see some of her best looks. And then there are her flashy looks sans robes, like a green dashiki or a turquoise ensemble made of Chinese silk. Ginsburg’s known for other accessories, too. There are her clip-on earrings, plus her lace and fishnet gloves, which she took a liking to after initially wearing them for post-chemotherapy protection in 1999. Her collection has grown to over a dozen from all over the world, including a “dissent collar” and a “majority opinion collar,” as she described them to Katie Couric.

Ginsburg chose to go with lacy collars and the occasional jabot.

Men on the court generally pair theirs with a shirt and tie. Of the many hurdles Ruth Bader Ginsburg faced when she was sworn in as a female justice on the United States Supreme Court, one was what to wear with the traditional black robe.

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