mess dress
mess kit BrE

Today, the jacket continues to be used as part of military mess dress and in service industries.

"1 was thinking about Craig Lowell and his mess dress," she said.

Due to the tails, it was not considered a mess dress uniform.

This mess dress is worn in the evenings for dining.

Except for the jacket, Lowell was also in his mess dress uniform.

It is worn mid way down the jacket on the number two mess dress.

It differs from the full mess dress in a number of ways:

The only exception for this is the female mess dress, where they are worn on the sleeve.

A miniature medal is available for members to wear on their mess dress uniforms.

No rank insignia are worn on the mess dress shirt.

Military mess dress may also be seen at a white-tie event on appropriate occasions.

Mess Dress is only available for adult members.

The squadrons also retain their own stable belts and mess dress.

The watch, like his mess dress uniform, had come from Hong Kong.

Mess dress is not provided at public expense.

The Swedish lesser mess dress is the equivalent of the civilian black tie.

The evening mess dress for Officers included a kilt.

Miniature versions are made for mess dress and black and white tie.

Your friend, Lieutenant, shows up in mess dress.

Mess dress uniforms are worn by members for formal (black tie) evening ceremonies.

This modified form of the uniform lasted until 1934 when it was replaced by a version similar to the current men's mess dress.

A white jacket is substituted for the coloured one of temperate mess dress.

The mess dress worn by commissioned officers has a scarlet cutaway jacket.

The current mess dress is similar in cut and tailoring, but in a dark blue color for year-round wear.

"I don't know what mess dress is;" Sharon said.

The only result of fifteen minutes' fire was a hole in a mess kit.

I piled my mess kit high and found a quiet place to eat.

By this time, most of the unit was on its feet, lined up with mess kits in hand.

The summer mess kit is a white jacket, almost identical between different parts of the army.

Our mess kits were almost full and we gulped it down like animals.

Places for everyone were set with plates and utensils from a mess kit John had bought.

Each mess kit had a Morse code letter inscribed on it.

"Last year, I went out in the woods and found stuff from the festival, things people left, like old mess kits.

Each tribe member would retrieve one mess kit, then swim back to the beach.

It is also known as mess uniform and mess kit.

The Australian Army has mess kits for summer and winter.

The tin cups looked as if they came from a standard Army mess kit, but the plates were china.

With all that in their mess kit, they aren't going to be bothering us any time soon."

With bayonets, mess kits, anything if they were not.

He didn't seem to have a mess kit.

"Especially in a dress blue uniform or mess kit.

The mess kit was an ornate, formal dress uniform for evening wear.

"If I were to stay I really would get into everybody's mess kits."

Campers will find rain gear, tents and authentic mess kits.

Worn by personnel not in possession of mess kit, which is purchased at the member's expense.

He dug in his own mess kit and chose a hardtack biscuit.

He got his mess kit and went over to the stew pot Perseus had bubbling.