The Royal Irish Regiment Mess Dress - Male

• The Royal Irish Regiment Mess Kit Jacket, Vest and Overalls Complete

Included in the WordPress uniform parent: The Royal Irish Regiment Mess Kit Jacket, Vest and Overalls Complete.

• Royal Irish Regiment Piper-Green Mess Overalls

Male officers; the same overall pattern is an authorised option for female officers and WO1.

• 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.

Choose one authorised option

• Leather Wellington Boots

Officers wear Wellington boots with Mess overalls.

• 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.

• Piper-Green Infantry Caubeen

Supplied as a separately displayed Goldings product.

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.

• 2-Ply Green Twisted Cord Epaulettes

Supplied as a separately displayed Goldings product.

• Silver Dress Cap Badge

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.

• The Royal Irish Regiment Mess Kit Jacket, Vest and Overalls Complete

Included in the WordPress uniform parent: The Royal Irish Regiment Mess Kit Jacket, Vest and Overalls Complete.

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.

• Braces

Supplied as a separately displayed Goldings product.

• Short Swan-Neck Box Spurs

Field Officers and Adjutants with officer Mess overalls and box-spur Wellington boots.

• 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.