Honourable Artillery Company Mess Dress - Male

• Honourable Artillery Company Mess Kit Jacket, Vest and Overalls Complete

Included in the WordPress uniform parent: Honourable Artillery Company Mess Kit Jacket, Vest and Overalls Complete.

• Mess Dress Trousers

Use the supplier pattern for its established male officer or NCO scope; cloth, cut and stripe are selected by branch and rank.

Use the authorised combination for the selected dress variant

• Stiff-Fronted Wing Collar Shirt
• Marcella Shirt

Only a documented qualifying male jacket/order; not a default for every HAC Mess configuration.

• Authorised Mess Dress neck treatment where prescribed

The neck treatment is controlled by the cited order and local pattern; no separate Goldings product is asserted.

• Leather Wellington Boots
• Black Leather George Boots

Male officer Mess George-boot option with compatible trouser/overall and spur configuration.

• Authorised socks or hose

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.

• Honourable Artillery Company No. 1 Forage Cap
• Honourable Artillery Company Officer Side Cap

Wearers: authorised-personnel. Only where the regiment, Corps or unit authorises a side cap. At Commanding Officer discretion. With No. 2 Dress, not when leather equipment is worn. More-specific local order-of-dress rules remain controlling This side cap remains a source requirement only; it is outside the owner-selected Goldings stock range.

Select the authorised insignia for the wearer’s rank

• 3/4 Inch Silver Embroidered Crowns
• 3/4 Inch Silver Embroidered Garter Stars

Infantry element Garter stars only, with the corresponding male 3/4-inch or female 1-inch supplier pattern and correct carrier; Artillery uses Bath stars.

• Authorised rank carrier for the wearer and garment

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

• Honourable Artillery Company Mess Dress Collar Badges

Matching Mess collar badge for the named officer or SNCO rank and Infantry or Artillery branch.

• Honourable Artillery Company Cap Chinstrap Button (22 Ligne)

Matching formal-cap button when the cap is ordered outdoors or in transit with Mess 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.

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

• Honourable Artillery Company Mess Kit Jacket, Vest and Overalls Complete

Included in the WordPress uniform parent: Honourable Artillery Company Mess Kit Jacket, Vest and Overalls Complete.

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.

• Authorised spurs for an entitled wearer

Spurs apply only to an entitled wearer with compatible overalls or mounted footwear.

• 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.