Judge Judy wears a lace collar in the courtroom to add a bit of color to her black robes and to be disarming to litigants. She began wearing the lace collar as soon as she was appointed as a judge, as she noticed that male judges wore stiff-collared white dress shirts and colorful neckties that peeped out of the top of their robes, while female judges had nothing but neck peeping out of their robes.