The Parachute Regiment Mess Dress - Female

• Mess Jacket

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

Choose one authorised option

• Long Mess Dress Skirt
• or 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.

• Marcella Shirt

The local serial prescribes the soft Marcella or piqué shirt. It does not support an additional Army-wide stiff-shirt branch.

• Black Bow Tie
• Stiff Wing Collar

Only with the stiff evening shirt for the ceremonial or white-tie occasions specified in local Serial 45; not ordinary Mess.

• 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 Silver Embroidered Crowns
• 5/8 Inch Silver Embroidered Stars

Parachute Regiment officer Mess 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.

• The Parachute Regiment Mess Kit Arm Badge
• Parachute Regiment Officer and WO1 Silver Embroidered Mess Collar Badges

Officer and WO1 Mess jacket; retain metal No. 1 collars separately.

• Parachute Regiment 22 Ligne Mounted Gilt and Silver Mess Button

Officer Mess epaulette fitting; not an ordinary SNCO epaulette button.

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.

• The Parachute Regiment Mess Waistcoat

Supplied as a separately displayed Goldings product. Waistcoat retained as a uniform source specification; public sale listing withheld because no standalone WordPress product matches.

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.

• Court-Mounted Medals

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

• 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.