Editor’s note: Is what is old new again? The first piece below is by a Philadelphia lawyer who shared “10 Reasons to Wear a Suit and Tie” with The Legal Intelligencer, the Daily Report affiliate in Pennsylvania. For some historical perspective, at bottom, see the Daily Report’s 1995 piece on the advent of a phenomenon called “ Casual Friday.”

The 1992 movie “My Cousin Vinny“ ranks as one of my top five favorite lawyer movies. One of my favorite scenes is when Judge Chamberlain Haller, played by actor Fred Gwynne, leans down from the bench to upbraid Vinny for wearing a  black leather jacket in court, saying, “The next time you appear in my court, you will look lawyerly … wear a suit and tie. And that suit had better be made out of some sort of … cloth.”