The Mercian Regiment Service Dress - Female

• Issued Tunic

Specified by the dress evidence but not separately listed as a Goldings product for this uniform.

Choose one authorised option

• Service Dress Skirt
• or Service 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.

• Khaki Shirt

The route-local source supplies the exact officer Service Dress article. Generic issue and WordPress placeholder shirts are suppressed from this composition.

• Khaki Silk-Woven Officer Service Tie

Supplied as a separately displayed Goldings product. Exact Goldings stock pattern unresolved; retain as source requirement.

Choose one authorised option

• Women’s Brown Court Shoes
• or Women’s Brown Service Shoes

Supplied through the displayed Goldings product options.

• Service Dark-Khaki Socks

Specified by the dress evidence but not separately listed as a Goldings product for this uniform.

• Brown Leather Gloves

Supplied as a separately displayed Goldings product.

Choose one authorised option

• Female Service Dress Hat
• or The Mercian Regiment No. 1 Forage Cap
• or The Mercian Regiment Officer Side Cap

Wearers: officers, wo1, 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; 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 Bronze Metal Crowns
• 3/4 Inch Dark Bronze Metal Bath Stars

Officer Service Dress, according to substantive rank.

• Authorised rank carrier for the wearer and garment

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

• Mercian Regiment Officer Silver and Gilt Eagle Cap Badge
• Mercian Regiment Full-Size Arm Badge
• Mercian Regiment Officers’ Service Dress Collar Badges

Supplied through the displayed Goldings product options.

• The Mercian Regiment Service Dress Bronze 30 Ligne Button
• The Mercian Regiment Service Dress Bronze 40 Ligne Button
• The Mercian Regiment No. 1 Gold Gilt Hat Button
• Mercian Regiment Flat Lower-Front Service Button
• Mercian Regiment 1/2 Inch Bronze Undress Cap Button

Khaki Undress cap only; not the formal forage-cap fitting.

• The Mercian Regiment Infantry-Pattern Officer Sword

When sword carriage is ordered with officer Service Dress.

• Leather Scabbard

Supplied as a separately displayed Goldings product.

• Brown Leather Sword Knot

Supplied as a separately displayed Goldings product.

• Sword Belt and Slings

Specified by the dress evidence but not separately listed as a Goldings product for this uniform.

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

• Brown Leather Sam Browne Belt and Sword Frog

Ordinary No. 1 or Service Dress; retain the sword frog even when no sword is carried.

• 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.

• Whistle Lanyard

Specified by the dress evidence but not separately listed as a Goldings product for this uniform.

• 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.