Jedi attire was the clothing donned by Jedi who were members of the Jedi Order. The most well-known example consisted of monk-esque clothing and robes, often called Jedi robes. While Jedi could select their own attire once they became Padawans, the majority chose to wear the garments typically associated with the Order, though figures such as Aayla Secura and Ahsoka Tano were notable exceptions. The colors of Jedi apparel could vary, but they were generally tan or brown. In the later years of the Galactic Republic, the Jedi Masters were disturbed by the dark Jedi robes that Anakin Skywalker wore.
Armor was sometimes used alongside traditional Jedi robes during times of war; the Clone Wars led to the creation of Jedi Commander armor, which combined Jedi clothing with modified clone trooper armor. Some surviving members of the Order continued to wear Jedi robes even after the Great Jedi Purge that followed Order 66. After the end of the Galactic Empire's rule, Luke Skywalker trained a new group of Jedi apprentices who also wore Jedi robes. After his temple was destroyed, Skywalker kept a set of traditional robes, planning to wear them for his final Jedi ritual.
The Jedi way of life emphasized reverence for the Force and complete dedication to its principles. Consequently, members of the Jedi Order were not overly concerned with their appearance, typically dressing in simple robes. While there were no mandatory uniforms for Jedi, their apparel generally followed a pattern. This included an undertunic, an overtunic, a cloak with wide sleeves and a large hood for anonymity, loose trousers, a tabard, a wide sash tied around the waist with a belt, and tall boots. These items usually came in light earth tones, such as tan and brown, although some Jedi were known to wear darker shades. Some individuals, like the Kalleran rogue Janus Kasmir, felt that Jedi robes made their wearers resemble monks.
Adopting a straightforward and disciplined lifestyle, most Jedi chose to wear traditional earth-toned robes. These garments were comfortable and warm, and despite appearing restrictive, they allowed for a wide range of movement. In addition to not restricting the Jedi's movement, the robes created a "swirling" effect during combat, which could distract opponents. Besides their use in combat, Jedi robes offered protection from harsh weather conditions, making them particularly useful on planets like Kamino or those covered in deserts. The Jedi Order also allowed members to wear robes from their homeworlds, such as Barriss Offee's hybrid Mirialan-Padawan outfit or the elegant clothing worn by the high-born Dooku of House Serenno.
Traditional Jedi robes were worn by both Grand Master Yoda and Jedi Master Luke Skywalker. Yoda used his cloak's hood for disguise, while Skywalker reserved his traditional garments for his final Jedi rite.
Jedi Commander armor was a type of personal armor worn by some Jedi Order members during wartime. Costing 5,000 credits and distributed to Jedi after the passage of the Jedi Military Integration Act, it was a modified version of clone trooper armor. Developed during the Clone Wars, it was used by the Jedi Generals of the Grand Army of the Republic, who fought alongside clone troopers on numerous battlefields throughout the galaxy. Despite their Force powers and [lightsaber combat](/article/lightsaber_combat] skills, Jedi were vulnerable to blaster fire, so they wore armor over their ceremonial robes during the conflict against the Separatist Droid Army, which consisted of billions of battle droids.
Another type of armor used by the Jedi was Jedi Reconnaissance Armor. Costing 4,000 credits, it was created during the Clone Wars to ease the clone troopers' concerns about the safety of their generals. The Jedi used this lightweight armor to provide some protection against blasters without hindering their movement.
While robe styles changed over the history of the Jedi, the Jedi Order did not enforce a strict dress code. Jedi could choose their attire after becoming Padawans, and some Padawans even wore clothing that differed from the Order's typical apparel. However, most Jedi chose to wear traditional Jedi robes, with only a few deviating from this established pattern.
Some species within the Jedi ranks needed to modify the basic appearance to meet their needs. Kel Dor Jedi, like Master Plo Koon, wore goggles and an antiox breath mask for protection when off their homeworld of Dorin. As a hair-covered species, a Wookiee Jedi did not necessarily need to wear Jedi robes; the Padawan Gungi wore only a sash, belt, and bandolier. However, other Wookiee Jedi—such as Burryaga Agaburry, who had both mission and Temple attire like other High Republic Era-Jedi, and Arkoff—wore the Order's apparel.
During the High Republic Era, Jedi wore brown robes with a golden trim, known as mission robes. They also had access to white and gold garments called Temple robes. These ceremonial clothes were used at formal events like the dedication of the Starlight Beacon. Kufa of the Ro family criticized the golden robes as overly ostentatious, dismissing the Jedi as lacking a true understanding of the Force, based on her distorted understanding passed down from the Path of the Open Hand cult. To infiltrate the Temple of the Kyber in 382 BBY, Path member Yana Ro received a set of slightly outdated robes from her reluctant ally, the corrupt chief archivist Feric Oranalli. Ro sarcastically thought that Oranalli's description of the robes as outdated implied the Jedi cared about staying ahead of fashion, but the robes worked well enough for her to sneak in.
During the High Republic Era, Barash Silvain and Porter Engle developed a sibling-like bond. Despite working closely together as they traveled the galaxy, they wore contrasting clothing that reflected their different personalities; Engle wore dark robes with lighter central robes and sleeves, while Silvain wore radiant white apparel with tan outer robes and a hood. After Silvain stepped away from active Jedi duty in what became known as the Barash Vow, Engle reported his sister's actions to the Jedi High Council while wearing cream-colored robes.
During the High Republic Era, one Jedi Wayseeker—a position in the Order where a Jedi operated independently of the Jedi High Council's orders—was Orla Jareni, who always wore white robes, making her stand out among the brown-robed Jedi on missions. Jedi Padawan Reath Silas found her entire look, due to her outfit and general Umbaran appearance, to be as unique as her decisions, with her blank robes making her also white skin seemingly have more color. As a Padawan, she had worn white robes during the Eiram–E'ronoh crisis, a mission where her then-fellow Padawan Cohmac Vitus also wore white robes. As a Jedi Master, Vitus wore the brown robes with golden trim more commonly used as the era's mission attire.
One Jedi with special attire was OrbaLin, a blob-based Ugor who wore an environment suit with a dome-like top to maintain a humanoid appearance. His suit was white and gold, resembling Temple robes. OrbaLin was the first of his species to join the Jedi Order. After losing his EVA suit, OrbaLin continued his Jedi service in his natural blob form.
During the conflict between the Nihil marauders and the Republic, backed by the Jedi, a battle occurred on Gallimere, where a human citizen found a fallen lightsaber. Believing Gallimere needed a hero, the human impersonated a Jedi, donning robes and wielding the lightsaber against the Nihil, but underestimated their numbers. After the establishment of the Nihil marauders' Occlusion Zone with the stormwall as its border, which bordered Gallimere, Jedi Master Keeve Trennis arrived after hearing rumors of a lone Jedi fighting the Nihil. Discovering another Nihil raid on Gallimere, Trennis found the robe-wearing, lightsaber-wielding human, who admitted they were not a Jedi but wanted to give the people hope. The individual helped Trennis defeat the Nihil force, and the Jedi Master assured them that hope was all they needed to serve the light side of the Force.
As the Jedi Order continued during the Republic Era, the white Temple Robes disappeared, and the mission robe became increasingly common, used both on missions and within temples. The golden trim seen in the High Republic Era mission robe vanished from the overall brown and tan robe design. Despite this, a strict "dress code" still did not exist, though most Jedi followed tradition. Among the more individualistic Jedi who strayed from tradition to showcase their personal traits was the Twi'lek Aayla Secura, who wore fitted clothes that allowed complete freedom of movement and left her midriff exposed. Another Twi'lek Jedi, Finn Ertay, wore a long-sleeved, high-necked full-length dress that flared below the waist. Mirialan Jedi Master Luminara Unduli wore dark robes and a headdress that distinguished her from other Jedi, while her apprentice, the fellow Mirialan Barriss Offee, donned her own unique set of blue robes.
With the passage of the Jedi Military Integration Act in the early weeks of the Clone Wars, the Order officially received military positions in the Republic Military and was granted body armor created from clone trooper armor, known as Jedi Commander armor. Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi were given armor after the act's passage but did not immediately wear it. Eventually, both Skywalker and Kenobi began wearing armor as part of their outfits; Skywalker had made the shift by the time of the Battle of Arantara, while Kenobi had adopted the gear by the time of the mission to Krystar.
During the Clone Wars, Skywalker wore dark robes, which concerned older members of the Jedi Order. In his robes completed by Jedi armor, Skywalker wore a red and blue fitted tunic with dark armor plates, including a heavy, arm-length glove over his cybernetic right hand. His left hand featured a vambrace with a comlink. Later, he adopted an outfit without clone armor, though he kept the comlink-equipped vambrace and long glove. His new robes were dark brown/maroon, with even darker outer robe portions, though he shifted back to his prior outfit during the mission to Batuu and mission to Mokivj. During that operation, the Chiss commander Mitth'raw'nuruodo noted the practical applications of Skywalker's Jedi robes. In time, Skywalker shifted to even darker robes with a leather vest but no armor, retaining his cybernetic arm covering but leaving his left hand ungloved.
After Kenobi began wearing protective armor as a Jedi General, his gear was fitted over tan Jedi robes, its design derived from that of the clone troopers in his 212th Attack Battalion. He later wore less armor, only donning two forearm pieces adorned with the symbol of the Open Circle Fleet, and eventually dropped armor altogether. The Kiffar Jedi Quinlan Vos favored sleeveless tunics and occasionally wore a black leather outfit.
The Togruta Ahsoka Tano served on the Clone Wars frontlines as Skywalker's Padawan learner. Like Skywalker, she did not adhere to the traditional Jedi 'dress code,' preferring a sportier, more youthful style. She initially wore a bandeau top and skirt, which she had worn before meeting Skywalker. During her apprenticeship, she also owned clothing that covered more of her body without compromising her movement. She later fully adopted an outfit that covered more skin while still allowing great freedom of movement, wearing it for the rest of her Jedi service and only changing her attire after leaving the Order due to losing faith in the organization.
By the end of the Clone Wars, the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious had succeeded in turning Anakin Skywalker to the dark side of the Force. They quickly moved to restore Sith rule to the galaxy by destroying the Jedi Order. As a result, the newly-anointed Sith apprentice Darth Vader kept the dark robes he wore as a Jedi Knight. During the siege of the Jedi Temple, Vader found a group of Jedi Initiates hiding in the Jedi Council Chamber. Still in his Jedi garments, he was mistaken for a Jedi by one of the younglings, who thought Skywalker had come to help them.
Vader continued to wear Jedi robes during his mission to the volcanic world of Mustafar, where he executed the leadership of the Confederacy of Independent Systems for his Sith Master. However, his duel with Obi-Wan Kenobi across the magma-covered plains of Mustafar resulted in Vader's immolation, where his Jedi attire was burned and replaced by a black suit of armor.
With the Galactic Republic replaced by the Galactic Empire, the surviving Jedi scattered into exile to escape the Great Jedi Purge. While some Jedi, like Yoda, Kenobi, and Ferren Barr, continued to wear Jedi robes during the Imperial Era, Cal Kestis and Caleb Dume adopted non-Jedi attire—in Kestis' case, the work clothes of the Scrapper Guild on Bracca—while hiding as fugitives under Order 66.
Anakin Skywalker's son, Luke Skywalker, became the last Jedi after the death of his mentor Yoda. Taking the title of Jedi Master, he trained multiple apprentices, including his nephew Ben Solo. The new generation of Jedi wore Jedi garments from the early days of their apprenticeship, as did Skywalker, who wore woven Jedi robes with a traditional Jedi belt buckle.
After the destruction of Luke Skywalker's Jedi temple, Solo sought to join the Knights of Ren. Because Ren disapproved of Solo's Jedi attire, the former Padawan replaced his tattered robes with darker garments reminiscent of the Knights' battle gear.
Skywalker fled to the Jedi Order's ancestral homeworld of Ahch-To, where he stored Jedi relics and a set of traditional Jedi robes that he intended to wear only for his final Jedi rite. Disillusioned by the Order's past defeats and his nephew's transformation into Kylo Ren, Skywalker wore his traditional robes when he attempted to burn a uneti tree that served as a repository for the last traces of the Jedi religion.
In the wake of the Battle of Starkiller Base, Rey, a scavenger hailing from the planet Jakku, located Luke Skywalker in his self-imposed exile on Ahch-To. At their initial meeting, Skywalker was wearing his customary Jedi attire, while Rey's outfit featured "a loose openweave tabard in Jedi tradition." Before her departure from Ahch-To, Rey changed into Jedi training clothes before her face-to-face confrontation with Kylo Ren aboard the Supremacy. Just as her previous clothing did, the training outfit was influenced by Jedi tradition, also showcasing "a loose open weave tabard."
By the time the Battle of Crait occurred, Skywalker had changed his mind about ending the Jedi Order. Although he remained physically present on Ahch-To, he managed to project a projection of himself onto Crait, transmitting his presence across the galaxy using the Force. General Leia Organa, his twin sister, was surprised by the appearance of Skywalker in Jedi robes. He intended to rescue her Resistance from the First Order and its new leader, Supreme Leader Kylo Ren.
Skywalker's illusion presented a younger version of himself, wearing the same Jedi robes that he wore when he was Ben Solo's Jedi Master. The sight of his former mentor enraged Ren, preventing him from noticing the inconsistencies in Skywalker's appearance. As a result, Ren failed to eliminate the remaining members of the Resistance as he had planned. However, the act of projecting himself across space and time ultimately caused Skywalker's death. Consequently, his body disappeared along with his Jedi garments, leaving behind only the outer robe after he became one with the Force.
Having dedicated herself to learning the Jedi ways, Rey began wearing white clothing inspired by the clothes she wore during her time as a scavenger. Rey's chosen attire not only paid tribute to her origins on Jakku but also featured a lightweight synthetic capelet that reflected the Alderaanian heritage of her mentor, Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan. She also wore trousers with padded knees while participating in the athletic exercises of her Jedi training on the planet Ajan Kloss.
During the New Republic Era, Karr Nuq Sin inherited the Jedi robes that belonged to his great-grandfather, Padawan Naq Med, who had left the Jedi Order before the Clone Wars. Inspired by his Jedi lineage, Nuq Sin dedicated himself to rediscovering the lost history and artifacts of the Jedi Order.
After the Order's downfall, the Jedi became the subject of myths and were deified as legendary figures. These narratives created a romanticized image of Jedi Knights dressed in brown robes and wielding "laser swords." Rose Tico, a technician in the Resistance, described the Padawan braid as a "little rat tail" after Finn informed her about Rey's search for Skywalker.
Jedi attire first made its appearance in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, although it wasn't until Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace that it was established as the standard clothing of the Jedi.