Wigs

The wigs worn in court by British barristers, such as Kate's handmade horsehair one worth 600 pounds, are symbols of the archaic traditions still associated with the modern British justice system. Kate notes that typically, such formal regalia as a wig is handed down from one generation to its subsequent, with the recipient until very recently likely to be a male, which goes to Vaughan's main point about the systemic gender bias within British institutions like the courts, central government, and elite universities. Although Kate has had her wig for 19 years, it still looks new, which she feels makes her look like a young girl instead of the experienced prosecutor she is mostly taking on male sexual criminals.

Accents

In the novel, accents represent the surest way for an English person to reveal not just their geographic origins, but their status within the rigid and enduring British...