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With the general disappearance of full dress uniforms after World War I, mess dress became the most colourful and traditional uniform to be retained by most officers in British and Commonwealth armies. Immediately after World War II the cheaper "blue patrols" were worn for several years as mess dress, but by 1956 the traditional uniforms had ...
Soldier's Kit Locker containing general-issue uniform (Army Air Corps). The uniforms of the British Army currently exist in twelve categories ranging from ceremonial uniforms to combat dress (with full dress uniform and frock coats listed in addition). [1] Uniforms in the British Army are specific to the regiment (or corps) to which a soldier ...
Mess dress uniform is the most formal (or semi-formal, depending on the country) type of evening-wear uniform used by military personnel, police personnel, and other uniformed services members. It frequently consists of a mess jacket, trousers, white dress shirt and a black bow tie, along with orders and medals insignia.
The dinner dress uniforms of the United States Navy are the most formal and have the most variations. For officers, there are Dinner Dress Blue and Dinner Dress White, Dinner Dress Blue Jacket and Dinner Dress White Jacket, and Formal Dress. Although trousers are authorized, women frequently wear the appropriate color skirt.
In the United States Army, soldiers may wear insignia to denote membership in a particular area of military specialism and series of functional areas. Army branch insignia is similar to the line officer and staff corps officer devices of the U.S. Navy as well as to the Navy enlisted rating badges. The Medical, Nurse, Dental, Veterinary, Medical ...
Mess dress for general officers (left) and officers (right) The Mess dress uniform is worn to formal or semi-formal occasions such as dinings-in and dinings-out , the annual Air Force Ball, weddings and other formal functions where civilian " black tie " would be prescribed.
Mess jacket. The mess jacket is a type of formal jacket that ends at the waist. It features either a non-fastening double breast cut or a single-breasted version that fastens. [1] The jackets have shawl or peak lapels. Used in military mess dress, during the 1930s it became a popular alternative to the white dinner jacket in hot and tropical ...
Interim Mess Dress: For personnel without No 5 dress. No 5: Mess Dress: In temperate regions. No 6: Service Dress / Full Dress: In warm weather regions. In stone colour, except for 6A (full ceremonial) which is white. No 7: Service Working Dress: In warm weather regions. In stone colour. No 8: Mess Dress: In warm weather regions. Jacket in ...
The "Auxiliary Alternate Working Uniform" (or "AWU") is an alternative to the ODU for those members who either do not meet Coast Guard height, weight, and grooming standards, or simply prefer not to wear military-style uniforms. It consists of a dark blue polo shirt with the Coast Guard Auxiliary crest embroidered over the left breast, dark ...
B. Balmoral bonnet. British Army mess dress. Uniforms of the British Army. British Army uniform and equipment in World War I. British Battledress.