The Blues and Royals Blues and Royals Service Dress Cap
Khaki Service Dress cap with brown leather chinstrap and Blues and Royals fittings.
Description
Specification
Gender
Male & Female
Construction
The officer-pattern cap matches Service Dress in khaki drab, with a ¼-inch brown-leather chinstrap, gilt RHG/D buttons, regimental badge and an unedged peak.
The common male-officer Service Dress cap is cut like the forage cap in khaki barathea matching the issue No. 2 Dress uniform, subject to the more-specific Part 4 exceptions.
The common male-officer Service Dress cap has a plain peak of the same material as the cap.
Outside the General Staff and any more-specific authorised exception, officers and soldiers wear no separate band on the Service Dress cap.
The generic soldier Service Dress cap uses dimensions similar to the officer pattern with additional crown stiffening.
Wear
It may be worn on appropriate undress occasions without medals and is now unusual when the Sam Browne is worn.
Mounted soldiers may wear the Service Dress cap as an alternative to forage cap or crash hat.
Source Evidence
The cited source passage supplies the service dress cap specification for this article.
Commercial Boundary
Goldings’ WordPress catalogue records the customer-facing parent name “The Blues & Royals No.2 Hat”.
Khaki Service Dress cap with brown leather chinstrap and Blues and Royals fittings.
Related uniforms
Completes
the uniforms
Orders of dress completed by this product for The Blues and Royals.
