General Staff Mess Dress - Female

• Mess Dress

Included in the displayed Goldings uniform product: Mess Dress.

Choose one authorised option

• Evening Dress
• or General Staff Officer Blue Overalls

Choose one lower-garment outfit. The existing skirt/dress or female-cut trousers remain available, with the matching male-pattern trousers or overalls offered as alternatives by Goldings. Rank, appointment, occasion and mounted-duty conditions remain specific to each option.

Use the authorised combination for the selected dress variant

• Stiff-Fronted Wing Collar Shirt
• Marcella Shirt

A separate shirt applies only when a female wearer elects the male-pattern ensemble. The full-length female Evening Dress branch has no separate shirt; within the male-pattern branch the two stocked shirts remain occasion alternatives.

• Stiff Wing Collar

Supplied as a separately displayed Goldings product.

Choose one authorised option

• Leather Wellington Boots
• or Women’s Black Court Shoes
• or Women’s Navy-Blue Evening Court Shoes

Navy evening-shoe alternative with the female Mess skirt.

• Authorised stockings or tights

Hosiery follows the selected lower garment and footwear under the cited dress rule; no separate Goldings product is asserted.

Not part of the standard composition for this role and order of dress.

ADR 09.65 states that female Army personnel do not wear headdress with Nos. 10 or 11 Dress.

Select the authorised insignia for the wearer’s rank

• 3/8 Inch Silver Embroidered Stars
• 3/8 Inch Silver Embroidered Crowns
• Silver Embroidered Crossed Sword & Baton — Mess Dress

Select full or half-size embroidery for the actual rank and order; ordinary No. 1 gold embroidery is for General Officers and Field Marshals, not Brigadier/Colonel metal-rank configurations. Mess Dress only where the substantive rank includes a crown; use the prescribed silver embroidery on blue shoulder straps. Mess Dress: General, Lieutenant General and Major General only; excludes Brigadier and Field Marshal. Required crossed sword and baton with the appropriate crown/star complement; internal source specification, not a separately offered product.

• Authorised rank carrier for the wearer and garment

The rank carrier depends on the wearer and authorised garment construction under the cited rule.

• Full-Size Dull-Silver Royal Cypher
• Full-Size Gilt Royal Cypher

Specified by the dress evidence but not separately listed as a Goldings product for this uniform.

• General Staff Officer Mess Dress 22 Ligne Button

22-ligne mounted button at the prescribed female jacket position, with rank-appropriate device.

Not part of the standard composition for this role and order of dress.

Not part of the standard composition for this role and order of dress.

Not part of the standard composition for this role and order of dress.

Not part of the standard composition for this role and order of dress.

• Midnight-Blue Three-Pleat Cummerbund

Specified by the dress evidence but not separately listed as a Goldings product for this uniform.

Not part of the standard composition for this role and order of dress.

• Authorised shoulder cords, chains or details

Shoulder cords, chains or other details depend on the authorised local pattern.

• Braces

Supplied as a separately displayed Goldings product.

• Short Swan-Neck Box Spurs

Steel swan-necked box spurs are conditional on the female wearer selecting the male-pattern overalls-and-Wellington branch; they do not apply to the full-length Evening Dress branch.

• Orders, decorations and medals as entitled

Orders, decorations and medals are selected by individual entitlement and the occasion.

• Authorised lanyard or aiguillette where entitled

A lanyard or aiguillette is worn only where local custom or individual entitlement requires it.

• Additional authorised item for the occasion

Any additional accessory is controlled by the cited occasion or local dress rule.

• No. 3 Staff Aiguillettes

Offer the same No.3 Staff pattern conditionally, only for an entitled ADC/Military Assistant/Flag Lieutenant appointment and official duty during that appointment; ordinary officer status alone confers no entitlement.