What is appropriate to wear to a jury summons?

You can wear what you like. You can bring the type of reading material you want (maybe not ). You can usually have an iPod or MP3 player if you like to listen to music (or a little radio with headphones). You can bring your own food. You've been summoned with a bunch of other people so it doesn't mean you've been selected to serve on an actual jury, yet. And a lot of the time you'll just be sitting in the general jury room with everyone else who was summoned waiting for your name/number to be called to go to a courtroom for possible jury selection. And you'll sit in the courtroom while the case is explained to you and the lawyers-judges do their little speeches to prepare you for what will happen. And only then will they call you by name/number to come up and be individually questioned. All the rest of the time, you'll just be sitting there and can read (probably can't have headphones on). Don't bring a huge amount of stuff since you'll need to lug it around with you even if you go to the bathroom. The less noisy the things you have the better because you can't disrupt or disturb what goes on in the courtroom. Answer questions honestly and without story. If any of the lawyers are interested in finding out more from you, they'll ask you about it and you just need to answer whatever they ask. Don't get into an elaborate detailed story telling thing. The lawyers only have a limited amount of time to select a jury so as entertaining as it might be, you can't be taking up too much time. Plus if you jabber too much and enjoy it too much, you'll be dismissed because the lawyers will see you as a gossip and won't want you blabbing so much about their case if you were on the jury.