Clothing, as has been shown in a growing body of anthropological research, not only reflects reality but also works to make it. This article uses the unique lens provided by fashion to focus on the populace in which popular courts stake their legitimacy. Much in the way that laws, processes, and procedures affect people's relationship to law, courthouse attire, too, subtly and perhaps more cunningly contributes to the creation of subjects that interact with and understand the law in specific ways. Specifically, the clothing worn in and required by a popular courthouse helps to make the very community in which that court claims its popularity. Ethnographic examples from fieldwork in a municipal tribunal in Cuba and in the Caribbean Court of Justice in Trinidad and Tobago show how fashion reflects the historical development of each court while it simultaneously works to transform populations into ideal legal subjects.

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塑造法律主体：加勒比地区的大众司法和法庭服装

正如人类学研究中不断增长的服装所显示的那样，服装不仅反映了现实，而且还在努力使之成为现实。本文使用时尚提供的独特视角来关注大众法院所关注的合法性的民众。法律，程序和程序在很大程度上影响着人们与法律的关系，法院的着装也以微妙甚至更狡猾的方式促成了与特定法律互动和理解法律的主体的建立。具体地说，流行的法院所穿和需要的衣服有助于使法院宣称其受欢迎的社区变得非常重要。