Mess dress uniform is the most formal type of uniforms used by military personnel, police personnel, and other uniformed services members.
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Mess dress uniform is the most formal type of uniforms used by military personnel, police personnel, and other uniformed services members.
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Mess dress uniforms are typically less formal than full dress uniform, but more formal than service dress uniform.
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Mess dress uniform is known as mess uniform and, more informally, as mess kit.
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Summer mess dress is similar except that a white jacket with rank insignia on navy blue shoulder boards is worn, and either the waistcoat or cumberbund is worn.
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The summer standard pattern mess dress is similar except that a white jacket with rank insignia worn on black shoulder boards, and cummerbund, is worn.
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Army reserve regiments are authorized to wear mess dress that is distinctive to the regiment and which can consist of jackets of different cuts and colours, rather than the standard pattern mess dress.
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The summer mess dress is similar except that a white jacket with rank insignia worn on midnight blue shoulder boards is worn, and is authorized as an optional order for RCAF officers only.
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Mess dress uniforms were worn by officers of the Imperial German Navy, though not by army officers.
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SS mess dress resembled a double-breasted dinner jacket, with collar tabs and white piping.
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In modern Germany, mess dress is a permitted uniform for officers and non-commissioned officers of the Bundeswehr attending white or black tie festive social occasions.
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The mess uniforms are the only Israeli army order of dress to include a tie, and have a summer version and a winter version.
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Mess dress uniform is authorized for all commissioned officers of the Pakistan Army, Air Force and Navy.
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Swedish full mess dress is formal wear to be worn on occasions when a civilian would wear white tie or a morning dress.
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The full mess dress is thus the equivalent of full dress uniform for units which don't have their unit-specific full dress uniform traditions.
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Mess dress is a permitted uniform, in that it is allowed to be worn on defined occasions, but possession is not obligatory.
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Full mess dress is thus matched by hogtidsdrakt and the lesser mess dress by sallskapsdrakt .
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Formal wear is the same as parade Mess dress, when worn at the equivalent of a white tie occasion.
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The unMess dress tailcoat is fitted with scallop-flapped hip pockets with three gilt buttons on each pocket.
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The optional outer garment worn with evening Mess dress is the boat cloak, which is a knee-length navy blue cloak lined with white silk, with four gilt buttons, and fastened at the neck with two gilt lions' heads joined with a chain.
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Non-commissioned officers' mess dress is usually simpler in design, but in the same colours as officers of their regiment.
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In 1928, wearing of the full range of blue Mess dress uniforms was authorized for all ranks, but only when off duty, and at the expense of the individual.
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The "special evening Mess dress" was finally abolished in 1969, although officers already in possession of this uniform could continue to wear it until 1975.
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Original U S Air Force mess dress consisted of a short black jacket with black trousers, with a white jacket for summer wear.
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The current mess dress is similar in cut and tailoring, but in a dark blue color for year-round wear.
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Women's mess dress uniforms have a long skirt replacing the trousers and delete the button chain clasp for the coat.
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