Talk:Mess dress uniform

message: Is Mess dress the equivalent of Black Tie or of White Tie.
Both and neither! It is a long subject. Various nationalities also have varying traditions. 
It is often the most formal type of dress, and such is worn both to white tie and black tie events. Both black tie and white tie is by tradition evening wear; however, it is often worn in the afternoon for such things as weddings (in Sweden white tie is the traditional dress for wedding, at all timings). Here the military individual would be more appropriately dressed in a uniform, the more formal the better. Full formal uniforms are also worn in the evening at specific events.
Navies usually have two types of formal mess dress, mess dress and mess undress, where the type of vest worn may vary. Some still have the formal white tie version with tails, although as the article points out, the RN no longer has this type. The USPHS has a formal style of mess dress, with a white vest and white bow tie, but with a short jacket. I don't know about the US Navy. Glenlarson 15:15, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Can we please have a description/discussion of women's military formalwear added to the various sections? At present, formal wear has mess dress listed under "unisex"?  Is that true?  Men and women wear the exact same formalwear?  Please put an internal link under Women's styles at formal wear, i.e. [[mess dres#female mess dress|women's mess dress or something of that sort.
Article would also benefit from a discussion of what retired personnel and personnel on leave or not in active service where to formal occasions, if there are such guidelines.
Just some thoughts
Quill 01:09, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ladies? 

message: I have no intention of getting in a edit war with Plumtree100 over this issue. As far as I know there is no publicly accessible central record of how many individual regiments or corps currently retain the "infantry style" jacket or have changed to the "cavalry style" - since this is essentially a matter to be decided at unit level. The only consistently up-to-date sources of such information would be the websites of the various tailoring firms specialising in this type of uniform and these cannot be cited directly as references under the Wikipedia rules applying to commercial advertising. All that can be said is that prior to the regimental/corps amalgamations of 1958 to 2006 virtually all infantry, and most corps, had the simpler open fronted mess jackets and that now (with the exceptions cited and probably a few others) the position is reversed.If anyone knows better then please edit accordingly. Buistr (talk) 23:04, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Contemporary British Army mess jackets

message: In the Australian Army there is both 'summer mess kit' which is a white jacket and almost identical between different parts of the army, the second type is 'winter mess kit' which is made of a thicker material but has different coloured jacket designs depending on the wearers Corps.  The winter mess dress also includes a waist coat.  With both types the trousers are the same and vary slightly between Corps.  As for women's attire in the Australian army the dresss is the same as mens except women wear a skirt instead of trousers.  Both versions have a bow-tie and white shirt.--TinTin (talk) 06:12, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Australian Army Perspective

message: Has anybody any information relating to the use of mess dress by the Merchant Navy or the Coastguard? --Thefrood (talk) 03:00, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: British Merchant Navy and Coastguard?

message: At the marriage ceremony of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and Daniel Westling on June 19, 2010 both  H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf and  Prince Carl Philip appear to be wearing Swedish navy mess dress. Perhaps somebody with Swedish language skills could track down some more detailed info about the appearance and use of this mess dress.
Here are a couple of English language links 
* usa.publiboda.com
* www.kungahuset.se
--Thefrood (talk) 01:51, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Done, A big thank you to Mr.choppers for translating the Swedish article.  --Thefrood (talk) 08:51, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Sweden?

message: Is this the lesser or the greater mess dress? Greenshed (talk) 21:01, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Air force mess dress

message: The German wiki page about formal Bundeswehr uniforms has a description of both male & female mess dress. Unfortunately there a couple of words that the machine-translated version fails on - "Seidengalons" and "Torerobund". 
Ausgehuniform#Gesellschaftsanzug
--Thefrood (talk) 14:51, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: "Seidengalons" is a silk dress stripe along the trouser leg (), while a Torerobund is a bullfighter-style waste sash (cf Kummerbund for cummerbund), called "fajín" in Spanish. I find Google image search in the respective languages an invaluable search tool.  ⊂| Mr.choppers |⊃  (talk) 18:32, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks, I did do a text search on the words but that really was not much help - I'll have to remember image search for next time.   --Thefrood (talk) 18:46, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Done what I can with the machine-translation, however if a German speaker does happen upon this I'm pretty sure it could benefit from a polish.  --Thefrood (talk) 19:23, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: This is becoming a habbit, thanks once again to Mr.choppers for a top translation.  --Thefrood (talk) 19:41, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks and cheers. This is kind of fun, actually.  ⊂| Mr.choppers |⊃  (talk) 19:53, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Germany - Bundeswehr 

message: I know this is a relatively minor detail, but I have added a note on how the US naval & Coast Guard officer and Marine enlisted jackets are double-breasted, but cut so as not to overlap, and instead fasten in the center. This is unusual: most other civilian (and military) exemplars in double-breasted seem to be cutaway, made in such a way as to be worn unbuttoned without gathering under the arms. The US version seems to be in imitation of the frogged smoking jacket/tuxedo, but the fastener does not appear to be a frog: it looks like a hook-and-eye on the inside with brass buttons on the outside for a more military appearance. Can anyone confirm if this is indeed how it fastens on the inside? Jpbrenna (talk) 07:49, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Fastening of US Marine & Navy Jackets 

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message: The recently added "Russia and the former USSR" section is interesting but the uniform described does not seem to be a Russian version of mess dress.  It looks like a summer variant service dress and the text says that is worn at ceremonies such as receiving state awards which, in a western context, would be a service dress or ceremonial dress event.  Can anyone provide any evidence that it is actually a form of mess dress or is worn an evening military social events like formal dinners etc?  Thanks Greenshed (talk) 13:37, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: *The concept of mess dress extends significantly beyond British and US military culture.  However, as this Russian uniform not really mess dress then I don't think it belongs in this article unless a source can be found which states that it is a Russian mess dress. Greenshed (talk) 21:31, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: *I see that the stuff on Russian uniforms is back. I get the impression that the idea that it's a Russian equivalent of mess dress is a personal interpretation rather than a verifiable fact. It looks like a form of service dress to me. However, perhaps I'm wrong; if a citation to a reliable sources can be found that states that it is a Russian mess dress or similar then WP:V would be met. Greenshed (talk) 17:58, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Russia and the former USSR