This week, I am teaming up to do a crossover-post series on fashion statements that made history with my friend (and former student) Katie McGowan! (@katiemaecrochet ) Following is her write-up featuring Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s “Dissent” collar.
Fashion can be used to express opinions, and no one did that more effectively than the late Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ginsburg rose through the ranks in a typically male-dominated profession and gained notoriety for championing women’s and minority rights, and fighting against gender and racial discrimination. Ginsburg is only the second woman to sit on the Supreme Court.
Many will have recognized RBG’s wide variety of judicial collars, and she assigned codes of use for each one. Her delicate white lace collar, handmade in Cape Town, South Africa, was her “favorite” collar, and she wore it President Obama’s first congressional session in 2004.
Perhaps her most famous collar is her “dissent” collar, which was from the clothing store, Banana Republic. Ginsburg wore her dissent collar when delivering dissenting opinions, saying simply that it looked “fitting for dissents”, sparking related memes and merchandise. She famously chose to wear this collar the day after Donald Trump won the presidential election in 2016.
Source(s): https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ruth-bader-ginsburg-collars_n_58c9812fe4b0cb7d28ve4cf3 and https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a25362496/ruth-bader-ginsbug-collar-meaning/
