The Royal Dragoon Guards Mess Dress - Female

• Mess Jackets

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

Choose one authorised option

• Royal Dragoon Guards Brunswick-Green Mess Skirt
• or Royal Dragoon Guards Green Overalls

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.

• Collarless White Shirt

Plain-front collarless shirt for Officers, Warrant Officers and senior NCOs in the closed-jacket Mess pattern; Corporal golf-ball Marcella is separate.

The standard RDG closed-collar Mess jacket uses the plain collarless shirt.

• 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

• Royal Dragoon Guards Gold Gimp for Field Rank
• 5/8 Inch Silver Embroidered Stars
• 7/8 Inch Silver Braid Bath Stars
• 7/8 Inch Silver Braid Crowns

Second Lieutenants and Lieutenants: one or two 5/8-inch silver-braid Bath stars on scarlet pointed epaulettes edged in gold cord. Woven gold-cord shoulder boards use 7/8-inch silver-braid devices: Captain three stars; Major crown; Lieutenant Colonel crown and one star; Colonel crown and two stars. The 7/8-inch devices are internal fitting specifications, not stocked listings; owner-withheld boards remain withheld.

• Officer Mess Rank Boards and Epaulettes

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

• Royal Dragoon Guards Mess Dress Collar Badges

Supplied as a separately displayed Goldings product.

• Royal Dragoon Guards 30 Ligne Deep-Engraved Gilt Screw Button

40 ligne tunic-front buttons are for No. 1 and Service, not Mess.

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.

• Mess Vests and Waistcoats (Vest)

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.

• Royal Dragoon Guards Mess Dress Gold Cord Shoulder Boards
• Royal Dragoon Guards Subaltern Mess Dress Epaulettes

Subaltern alternative: scarlet-refine epaulettes.

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.

• Miniature 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.