Some people say that judges wear wigs to show that they are highly respected, while lawyers wear wigs to a certain extent to play a role in hiding and protecting, because they are worried that their defense results can not be recognized by the accused and their families. But this is not so much a rational explanation as a joke made up by people who have had problems with lawyers to discredit them. Because according to a recent survey: 57 percent of lawyers are dissatisfied with wearing a wig, hate to take it off, the reason is that these wigs made of horsehair braided wig sets are very expensive but very unhygienic, usually a wig will be used for a lifetime, there is a lawyer's family has a hair age of 94 years of old antiques, passed down for four generations, can be called a family heirloom.
According to historians and folklorists, the popular fashion tradition of the British wearing wigs began in the twelfth century, when not only judges and lawyers patent, the upper class people will wear a wig as a fashion, is to attend formal occasions or salon parties when the formal dress.
Western judges are required to wear wigs, and there's a bit of a story there. Wig fashion since the French King Louis XIII, especially in the 17th century, is a symbol of social status. Many professions also used it as a symbol. But the French Revolution and the American Revolutionary War cleansed the sludge, the Revolutionary Party to change the customs, a sweep of all kinds of status and rank symbols, and now only the United Kingdom and a few countries in the court system to maintain this habit. Judges in England, and in former Commonwealth countries and territories, including Hong Kong, wear a shawl wig on their heads, lawyers wear small wigs, and both judges and lawyers wear robes, usually black. Sittings under such adornment gave a very ceremonial feel. It is said that when a judge wears a black robe and a fake law, he or she can hide his or her original face, remove selfish thoughts, and become the embodiment of the rule of law, the embodiment of truth, goodness and beauty.
Jefferson, the third president of the United States, criticized the wig, saying that he hated the British-style judge's wig, the eerie little eyes flashing blue from behind the wig scene, simply sufferers can not. Wigs and vestments were also abolished in the United States, but the vestments were later reinstated. The atmosphere created by costumes like wigs and robes is to emphasize the extreme importance of the role of the judge, the extreme importance of the position. The wig that the judge wears belongs to the official wig, which indicates his official position, and it creates an atmosphere that is afraid that you can't see that it is a wig. So this wig put on after giving a special "dehumanization" feeling, that is to say, wearing a wig on the person does not look like a person, it reflects the judge as a non-human and non-god, half-human and half-god thought.