Royal Marines Mess Dress - Male
Royal Marines male officer No. 2 Mess Dress with below-Colonel versus senior rank carriers, order-specific cap and buttons, and short white shirt with day trousers for Red Sea.
Composition
Description
Specification
Gender
Male
Pattern
Royal Marines male officer No. 2 Mess Dress with below-Colonel versus senior rank carriers, order-specific cap and buttons, and short white shirt with day trousers for Red Sea.
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
Mess Dress Collar Badges
Required · Conditional · Lieutenant Colonels and below, WO1s, WO2s and SNCOs wear miniature Globe-and-Laurel badges · Below Colonel only for this miniature lapel configuration; senior full badge and SBS variant separate.
Badges & Insignia
Mess Dress Corps Badges — Colonels & Above
Required · Colonels and above wear the complete Corps badge embroidered in gold · Colonels and above wear the removable complete Corps badge embroidered in gold
Badges & Insignia
Royal Marines ‘RM’ Shoulder Titles
Required · Conditional · Gender: unisex. Wearers: all-ranks · Prescribed anodised RM letters on the Officer white Red Sea shirt, except the defined branch exclusions.
Badges & Insignia
Royal Marines Black Embroidered Corps Cap Badge
Conditional · Brigadiers and Colonels · General Officers · Only with the senior-officer peaked cap, not green beret.
Badges & Insignia
Royal Marines Officers and WO1s Two-Part Cap and Beret Badge
Conditional · Officers below Colonel or entitled WO1 only: split badge with silver globe; bright formal versus bronze combat selected by order. · Below Colonel only, with selected cap or beret and order-specific finish.
Buttons
Royal Marines 22 Ligne Mounted Mess Button
Conditional · Four 22-ligne mounted buttons on the Mess waistcoat front.
Buttons
Royal Marines 30 Ligne Mounted Mess Button
Conditional · Four 30-ligne mounted buttons on the officer scarlet Mess jacket front.
Footwear
Black Oxford Shoes
Choose one · Required · Conditional · Officers · Officers wear black officer-pattern shoes · Officer evening order
Hats
Peaked Cap
Conditional · Choose one · Gender: unisex. Wearers: all-ranks · Wearers: all-ranks. Gender: unisex · Eligible rank/branch peaked-cap configuration where prescribed.
Rank
1/2 Inch Anodised Metal Bath Stars
Conditional · Below Colonel miniature lapel rank only; senior scarlet Mess uses the prescribed silver-embroidered carrier. · White Mess miniature metal rank: below Colonel lapel, Colonel and above shoulder straps. Newer 5 mm placement applies.
Rank
1/2 Inch Anodised Metal Crowns
Conditional · Below Colonel miniature lapel rank only; senior scarlet Mess uses the prescribed silver-embroidered carrier. · White Mess miniature metal rank: below Colonel lapel, Colonel and above shoulder straps. Newer 5 mm placement applies.
Rank
5/8 Inch Gold Metal Bath Stars — Coloured Centre
Conditional · Metal-rank grade only: 16 mm Bath star on the appropriate shoulder carrier, according to substantive rank; General embroidered configurations separate.
Rank
5/8 Inch Metal Crowns — Coloured Top
Conditional · Current BRd 3 4017(a)(3): 16 mm Army-pattern crown, only where the officer’s substantive rank includes the crown; the named dress-order finish is required.
Shirts & Neckwear
Black Bow Tie
Required · Conditional · Wearers using the white evening-shirt order · Officers, WOs and SNCOs · No. 2AW and No. 2BW; not No. 2CW Red Sea Rig
Shirts & Neckwear
Marcella Shirt
Choose one · Wearers: officers, warrant-officers, sncos, jncos, band. Gender: unisex · Gender: unisex. Wearers: officers, warrant-officers, sncos, jncos, band
Shirts & Neckwear
White Short-Sleeved Shirt
Conditional · Officer Red Sea short-sleeved white shirt; not long plain white or Marcella.
Trousers, Skirts & Dresses
Blue Formal Trousers
Conditional · Choose one · Male wearers · Blue day trousers, not the formal Mess cut. · Blue-trouser evening order · Gender: unisex. Wearers: all-ranks. Except ranks and appointments assigned a broad scarlet stripe · Gender: unisex. Wearers: general-officers · Gender: unisex. Wearers: brigadiers, colonels, rmbs-officers, drum-majors, musicians
Waistcoats
Red or Scarlet Mess Cummerbund
Conditional · Wearers: officers, jncos, band. Gender: unisex · Prescribed Officer Red Sea scarlet cummerbund.