Security and Armed Forces
Military personnel or civilian officials generally wear several kinds of uniforms:
- battledress, khakis;
- dress uniform: worn at ceremonies, official receptions, and other special occasions; medals are typically worn.
- mess dress, formal evening dress worn in the mess or at other formal occasions.
- everyday work uniform, often with abbreviated forms of embellishment (such as using duller buttons or replacing medals with ribbon bars);
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