Royal Artillery Mess Dress - Female

• The Royal Regiment of Artillery Mess Kit Dress

Included in the WordPress uniform parent: The Royal Regiment of Artillery Mess Kit Dress.

Choose one authorised option

• Mess Dress Trousers

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.

Keep male Marcella option and remove dormant female-gown shirt relationship unless a separately supplied authorised bow-tie outfit is represented.

Retain male stiff-shirt/wing-collar option with formal evening and garment conditions; remove female gown links.

• Women’s Black Court Shoes

Supplied as a separately displayed Goldings product.

• 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

• 5/8 Inch Gold Metal Crowns
• 5/8 Inch Gold Metal Bath Stars — Coloured Centre
• 3/8 Inch Gold Embroidered Stars
• 3/8 Inch Gold Embroidered Crowns — Crimson Cap — specified component; not separately offered

3/8-inch gold embroidered gown star according to substantive rank; jacket rank remains separate. Female gown: crimson-cap 3/8-inch gold embroidered crown on navy/black crepe epaulettes for crown-bearing ranks; 5/8-inch metal crown remains jacket-only.

• 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.

• Royal Artillery Mounted 26 Ligne Button
• Royal Artillery Mounted 30 Ligne Button

Retain separately labelled RHA ball stock; verify only officer Mess mounted pattern and actual device, replacing unsupported generic RA officer links until resolved.

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.

• Scarlet Mess Cummerbund - Female

Supplied as a separately displayed Goldings product.

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.

This exact composition is skirt-only, so braces or other trouser support are not used.

This exact composition is skirt-only, so spurs and spur-box footwear are not used.

• 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.