Royal Marines Mess Dress - Male
Royal Marines male WO/SNCO Mess Dress in the prescribed scarlet or white jacket; JNCOs use the authorised blue/stone or ordered plain-shirt alternative. Half Lovat/Stone and Band performance branches remain distinct.
Composition
Description
Specification
Gender
Male
Pattern
Royal Marines male WO/SNCO Mess Dress in the prescribed scarlet or white jacket; JNCOs use the authorised blue/stone or ordered plain-shirt alternative. Half Lovat/Stone and Band performance branches remain distinct.
Catalogue fit
Male catalogue offering; no claim that BRd 3 excludes female service dress.
Fittings & Lead Times
Measurements are taken and fittings overseen by Geoffrey Golding at the St Albans workroom, with each garment checked throughout the making process for fit, balance, finish and correct detail. Lead time is typically 8-12 weeks, depending on workshop capacity, fitting requirements and the date required.
Related accoutrements
Complete
the uniform
Garments and accoutrements supplied to complete this order of dress.
Badges & Insignia
Cap and Beret Badges — split pattern
Descriptive · Choose one · Conditional · Source-defined article: WO2 split pattern · Select the Cap and Beret Badges — split pattern for the wearer's rank or appointment. · WO2 split all-anodised pattern on the selected cap, with Portsmouth/CTCRM Band cap exception. · WO2 split all-anodised pattern on Half Stone beret, with Band cap exception; officer silver-globe split pattern separate.
Badges & Insignia
Mess Dress Collar Badges
Conditional · WO/SNCO actual Mess only; not JNCO tunic/plain-shirt alternative.
Badges & Insignia
Royal Marines ‘RM’ Shoulder Titles
Conditional · Bronze RM letters on ordinary Half Lovats; Band white-shirt/slide exception separately selected. · Anodised RM letters on Half Stone shirt; Band white slides remain separate.
Badges & Insignia
Royal Marines Other Ranks Composite Cap and Beret Badge
Descriptive · Choose one · Conditional · Source-defined article: Other-rank composite pattern · Select the Royal Marines Other Ranks Composite Cap and Beret Badge for the wearer's rank or appointment. · Other-rank one-piece composite pattern on the selected cap, with Portsmouth/CTCRM Band cap exception. · Other-rank one-piece composite pattern on Half Stone beret, with Band cap exception; officer silver-globe split pattern separate.
Buttons
Royal Marines 22 Ligne Mounted Mess Button
Conditional · Four 22-ligne mounted buttons on the Mess waistcoat front.
Footwear
Black Oxford Shoes
Choose one · Conditional · Warrant officers and senior NCOs · Black shoes for ordinary Half Lovat/Half Stone outfit. · Wearers: warrant-officers, sncos, jncos, other-ranks
Hats
Peaked Cap
Conditional · Gender: unisex. Wearers: all-ranks · Wearers: all-ranks. Gender: unisex
Hats
Royal Marines Beret
Conditional · Half Lovat/Stone beret with qualification-appropriate colour and exact rank badge; Band cap exceptions remain separate.
Rank
WO1 Rank – Royal Arms
Conditional · WO1
Rank
Colour Sergeant Rank
Conditional · Colour Sergeants
Rank
Mess Dress Chevrons — Sergeant
Conditional · Sergeants · Band brassard exception only; ordinary Half Lovat/Stone uses the proper short-shirt rank. · Rank: Sergeant; Nos. 2A and 2B Dress
Rank
Mess Dress Chevrons — Corporal
Conditional · Gold-on-scarlet junior chevrons only on the specifically prescribed Band performance brassard; not a general JNCO scarlet Mess jacket.
Rank
Mess Dress Chevron — Lance Corporal
Conditional · Gold-on-scarlet junior chevrons only on the specifically prescribed Band performance brassard; not a general JNCO scarlet Mess jacket.
Shirts & Neckwear
Black Bow Tie
Required · Conditional · Wearers using the white evening-shirt order · Actual senior Mess or ordered JNCO plain-shirt alternative; no Red Sea bow tie. · No. 2AW and No. 2BW; not No. 2CW Red Sea Rig
Shirts & Neckwear
Marcella Shirt
Choose one · WO/SNCO actual Mess only; not the JNCO plain-shirt/tunic alternative.
Shirts & Neckwear
Plain White Shirt
Conditional · Only the ordered JNCO plain long-sleeved white-shirt alternative; WO/SNCO actual Mess uses Marcella.
Shirts & Neckwear
Stone Short-Sleeved Shirt
Conditional · Ordinary Half Lovat/Stone short stone shirt; Band white-shirt performance exception separate.
Trousers, Skirts & Dresses
Blue Formal Trousers
Conditional · Male wearers · Band performance blue-trouser exception only; ordinary Half Lovat/Stone uses matching trousers. · Blue-trouser evening order · Gender: unisex. Wearers: all-ranks. Except ranks and appointments assigned a broad scarlet stripe
Trousers, Skirts & Dresses
Stone Trousers
Conditional · Ordinary Half Stone trousers.
Waistcoats
Red or Scarlet Mess Cummerbund
Conditional · Prescribed WO/SNCO alternative or ordered JNCO plain-shirt alternative only. · Band white-shirt performance exception only; no cummerbund with ordinary Half Lovats.