The Royal Irish Regiment Mess Dress - Female

• The Royal Irish Regiment Mess Kit Dress

Included in the WordPress uniform parent: The Royal Irish Regiment Mess Kit Dress.

Choose one authorised option

• Royal Irish Regiment Women’s Piper-Green Mess Overalls
• or Royal Irish Regiment Piper-Green Mess 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.

• Marcella Shirt

The sex-specific route-local product replaces generic or collarless inherited associations.

• Black Bow Tie

Royal Irish Mess uses soft turn-down-collar shirt or blouse; no wing collar.

• Women’s Black Court Shoes

Supplied as a separately displayed Goldings product.

• Black Dress Socks

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.

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

• 1/2 Inch Wide Silver Embroidered Crowns
• 1/2 Inch Wide Silver Embroidered Stars

Officer Mess shoulder cords, according to substantive rank; specified as ½-inch width, not asserted equivalent to ⅝-inch stock.

• Authorised rank carrier for the wearer and garment

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

Use the specifically specified manufactured pattern; do not relabel existing stock as physically equivalent.

• The Royal Irish Regiment Black Engraved Shoulder-Cord Button
• Royal Irish Regiment Flat Silver 22 Ligne Mess Button

Four flat silver 22-ligne waistcoat buttons; black engraved 22-ligne shoulder-cord buttons for officers and WO1 only.

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.

• Piper-Green Mess Waistcoat

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.

• 2-Ply Green Twisted Cord Epaulettes

Officer or WO1 Mess jacket only: two-ply green twisted cords; not other NCOs.

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.

• 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.

• Royal Irish Regiment Miniature Silver Embroidered Tara Harp Mess Collar Badges

Royal Irish Mess Dress: miniature silver Tara Harp lapel badges facing inward. Separate manufacture from any unverified crowned-maiden artwork.

• 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.