* Mess jacket or eton jacket, similar to a tailcoat but cut off just below the waist.

* Mess dress ( No. 7 ) – mess jacket, gold-laced trousers, blue waistcoat, black bow tie, cap

* Mess undress ( No. 8 ) – mess jacket, plain trousers, blue waistcoat, black bow tie, cap

* Mess dress ( No. 2A ) – mess jacket, plain trousers, white waistcoat, black bow tie

* Mess undress ( No. 2B ) – mess jacket, plain trousers, blue waistcoat or cummerbund, black bow tie

In " No. 11 Warm Weather Mess Dress ", a white drill hip-length jacket is worn with either a waistcoat in the same material or a cummerbund of regimental pattern.

No. 5 Mess dress in the Royal Air Force is similar to that in the Royal Navy, except that the jacket and trousers are in mid-blue.

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* Mess jacket ( civil )

Mess dress is the military term for the formal evening dress worn in the mess or at other formal occasions.

Mess also describes the formal affair of having a " dining in ", held for military members and closed to the public, or a " dining out ", a social event for military personnel and their families.

Dowding's leather-topped desk, many of his papers and other effects still occupy the room in the Officers ' Mess which he used as his office, with its views across a stone balcony to the formal Italian garden below.

Mess dress in traditional scarlet, blue or green is worn by officers and senior NCOs of all regiments for formal evening dress.

Mess dress is the military term for the formal evening dress worn in the mess or at other formal occasions.

The formal designation of the most commonly worn mess uniform in the British Army is " No. 10 ( Temperate ) Mess Dress ".

The No. 2 ( Mess ) Dress is a formal evening attire for mess dinners.

The Royal Navy always goes in to dine at Mess Dinners to the tune, which is also played at United States Marine Corps formal mess dinners during the presentation of the beef.

Officers wear the standard " blues " uniform for dress functions, and the regular Army " Mess Dress " for formal functions.

Mess uniforms may vary according to the wearers ' respective branches of the armed services, regiments, or corps, but usually include a short Eton-style coat reaching to the waist.

Epaulettes are still worn on some Army Full Dress, Patrol Dress, and Mess Dress uniforms.

However, the cummerbunds worn as part of the US Army Blue Mess and Blue Evening Mess uniforms are worn with the pleats down, as prescribed by Army Regulation 670 – 1 Chapter 24 Section 10 ( b ).

Mess dress would be worn at occasions requiring white tie or black tie.

Mess dress and mess undress are today worn with a soft marcella-fronted shirt with a soft collar.

Mess uniforms authorised for army officers have recently been simplified in that the distinctive corps and regimental colours previously worn have been replaced by a universal scarlet and blue pattern.

Mess uniform is worn by Pakistani military officers posted abroad, either as Military attachés ( Air attaché, Naval attaché, Defence attaché ) or by high-ranking officers on official state visits.

Mess uniforms were worn by officers of the Imperial German Navy, though not by army officers.

Mess dress is a permitted uniform, in that it is allowed to be worn on defined occasions, but possession is not obligatory.

The badge is worn in the center of the left shirt pocket of all Air Force uniforms with the exception of the Mess Dress Uniform where it is worn on the left side of the chest beneath the ribbons / medals, and is the primary identification for officers and enlisted airmen of the Air Force Security Police.

" The cap is worn as part of the Undress uniform by students of Royal Military College of Canada, and as an optional item by all ranks of Rifle regiments with Ceremonial Dress, Mess Dress, and Service Dress uniforms.

Gold aiguillettes are also worn by officers in the Defence Forces with their Mess Dress uniform.

* Mess kit, a collection of silverware and cookware used during camping, backpacking, and extended military campaigns

Their mess on military bases or installations are generally named the " Warrant Officers and Sergeants Mess ".

Griffin often has included mention of Brooks Brothers military uniforms, Dress uniform and Dress Mess uniform in particular, in his best-selling Brotherhood Of War and The Corps book series.

In the second season episode " Don't Mess Around with Jim ," Ralph and Maxwell learn that they are not the first duo who received a uniform.

There was also a portrait of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh ( dressed in a flying suit, hanging in the Dining Room on the wall facing the Queen ), one of George VI ( in RAF No 1 uniform wearing a ' chip bag ' and wings, which hangs in the Abercorn Bar ) and one of The Queen Mother ( gifted to the Mess by the Queen Mother after she paid for refurbishment following the fire ).

Officers in the RAF Air Cadet Organisation may purchase the No. 5 Mess Dress at their own expense or wear the permitted No. 4 Mess Dress variation of No. 1 SD uniform.

Distinctive ornamentation of a design desired by the organization was authorized for wear on the Mess Jacket uniform by designated organizations ( staff corps, departments, corps of artillery, and infantry and cavalry regiments ) per General Order 132 dated December 31, 1902.

Mess dress is reserved for staff NCO and officers ; junior enlisted members wear dress blues.

It was a major success for the band, especially in Australia where it reached number three on the charts alongside its three singles " Planet Claire ", " Rock Lobster ", and " Dance This Mess Around ".

( Ladies Against Fanny Floss )" ( by West ), and " Don't Mess With Me ( I'm Somebody's Mother )" ( by Fingerett ), satirize modern life, especially from a mature female perspective.

He has to pretend not to hear the doings of his parents at night, especially after " Mess night ".