Celebrity 'Courtcore': how and why celebs dress up for trial

The greatest crime being commited here is the fact "Courture" was right there and we're using courtcore 😭

as an autistic person, body language experts seem super unreliable. "She's not making eye contact and fidgeting so she must be lying" nah I just have autism

I agree that Paltrow’s antics are ridiculous to the point of entertainment, but the larger part of me knows she ISNT doing it as a parody and is completely serious, and that honestly terrifies me

First Lady's outfits are another type of outfit that gets detailed analysis on par with courtroom outfits. I'd love to see a video on that if it's in your area/wishlist!

I was fascinated with how Elizabeth Holmes dressed in her criminal trials compared to how she dressed during her business “heyday.” During her business, she emulated Steve Jobs, with minimalist, masculine black turtlenecks and simple androgynous pantsuits. No dresses, hair back, makeup that emphasized the intensity of her gaze and sharpness of her features. In her trial, she was dressed in pastels, dresses, soft silhouettes or feminine suits, with her hair down and curled and makeup minimal, dewy and gentle. Absolutely fascinating, particularly since it was such a departure from her intentionally “assertive boy genius” appearance of her business persona.

This is the first time I’ve ever disagreed with a take. Cardi was convicted for having 2 women violently physically assaulted because her husband was cheating with them. She purposefully chose to glamorize assault with flamboyant outfits and was given a warning by the judge not to use it as 'a fashion show'. It was disturbing and to deliberately signal she didn’t take her crime serious, nothing to do with comfort

As an autistic person, my entire life I've had people think I was lying because I either was avoiding eye contact, or trying to maintain eye contact too intensely, lmao.

as a law student that is going to attend an international moot court before the european court of human rights in 2-3 weeks and has, therefore, been carefully choosing her outfits for each pleading, i am LIVING for this video

Lil Kim’s court outfits in 2005 could be a coffee table look book and I would buy it

Amy Winehouse’s court looks were great. Her hair in her classic beehive hair, her eyeliner perfectly applied, oversized blouse and fitted blazer, a black mini skirt, her classic ballet slippers and a cigarette in her mouth. She was iconic. *there was another one where she wore a bright floral mini dress, a black cropped cardigan and beige heals.

Multiple psych professors of mine had a vehemet grudge against lie detector tests so know you're not alone, Mina.

I hate Gywneth and her company goop. I work in a health supplement shop, and the idea of selling a product that would hurt your customers is disgusting (the jade egg situation was very disturbing). I do agree that she's an actress and is very good at her job of making people think she is kind and sweet and a "funny character." To me, this woman is cold and calculated.

The storyline for the musical Chicago was based on similar appearance-focussed judgements in the 1920s. I remember reading about Sabella Nitti. She was initially sentenced to death and didn't even speak English to know it. She was eventually acquitted with the help of a young lawyer named Helen Cirese, who got her to learn English and (I kid you not) gave her a makeover. Apparently juries were letting women off as long as they were attractive. And convicting them of whatever if not. Yeesh.

This is a real thing not only for celebrities but for big cases with public appeal. Here in Brazil we had this girl whom, with the help of her then boyfriend and boyfriend's brother, planned and killed her parents to get the heritage money. She was young, in university, she had good upbringing being like way above middle-class people in São Paulo. The case of course had massive coverage in brazilian news due to the cruelty of the deaths and when her involvement with the crime started being more than a speculation she (advised by her lawyer) started dressing like A CHILD, wearing pigtails and everything. It was ridiculous. Her and her lawyer were trying to pledge for mental insanity and she did some interviews for national tv channels playing this innocent and vulnerable woman-child. Her name's Suzane Von Richthofen if you guys want to look up and she was sentenced and is still in jail.

I never realised that this would be an aesthetic but I’m LIVING for it. Also, I’m biased to say Lady Diana in her signature suit and blazer in blue is a favourite.

I 100% agree with the body language expert take, so many times it comes across as "this person is clearly guilty because they didn't act like how we think they should" which is incredibly problematic considering the high number of ways people would react to any given situation, not even taking into account things like neurodivergency, and often these things are after a horrible trauma? Like I don't know how I would act if I found out a family member was attacked, I don't want to ever find out, but how much more horrible would it be if I also had to worry about showing grief in the right way at the right times in front of the right people. Like even when I'm just normal sad my instinctual reaction would be to make a joke, which would probably get me labeled as a murderer if the circumstances were right

Naomi’s runway looks when she would leave her community service activities in NYC were iconic. She was able to change her persona non grata status after losing her trial for assault against her housekeeper.

Many of these fits remind me of the phase a lot of us went through - Not knowing how to dress for job interviews as a teen/young adult, so you just threw a cheap blazer or a random business casual item over whatever else you were wearing. Also they all look slightly windswept in every photo, like they forgot they had court, ran late and didn't have time to finish their makeup or hair. Love the chaos of trying to look more "down to earth" professional.

The body language expert thing seems like it would disadvantage neurodivergent folks and the mentally ill.

I found it interesting when watching the Netflix show ‘Inventing Anna’ as it showed this whole process of her lawyer pushing Anna to wear a certain style of clothing and Anna pushing back and insisting on wearing something else, and the court and public’s reactions to what she wore as a result.