, Chancellor of the
University of Oxford, wearing his official academic dress as the university chancellor Trains are a common feature of the
Royal mantles of Kings and Princes, as well as the mantles of many
chivalric orders. Officers of older, traditional universities generally wear distinctive and more elaborate dress. The
Chancellor and the
Vice-Chancellor may wear a black damask lay type gown with a long train. In France the train is now usually hooked to the inner side of the robe. The
Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, when robed, dresses like a High Court Judge with the distinction of a train to their
scarlet robe. Judges of the Court of Appeal wear the black silk damask gown, trained and heavily embellished with gold embroidery. French court dress includes a train, now buttoned to the inside of the robe and suspended by fabric bands, a vestige of the former practice of lawyers carrying their trains. The
Lord Chancellor, the
Speaker of the House of Commons, and other high dignitaries also wear similar embroidered black robes with trains. The
Lord Mayor of London also wears a robe with a train. A trained robe, the
cappa magna (great cape) remains in use in the Catholic Church for certain ceremonial occasions.
Cardinals,
bishops, and certain other honorary
prelates are entitled to wear the
cappa magna, but within the territory of their jurisdiction. Eastern Orthodox bishops also traditionally use a cloak with a long train known as the
Mandyas, which may have parallels with the development of the Catholic
cappa magna. For male peers, the Coronation robe is a cloak of crimson velvet extending to the feet and open in the front (with white silk satin ribbon ties) with train trailing behind. The Parliament robe of a British peer is a full-length garment of scarlet
wool with a collar of white
miniver fur, cut long as a train, but this is usually kept hooked up inside the garment. Court dresses for women were commonly fifteen yards in length. Examples of Japanese Imperial court clothing, such as
sokutai for men and
jūnihitoe for women, include a long train extending from the back of the robe. They are still in use by the
Imperial Household of Japan for ceremonial occasions. ==History==