Windsor Uniform - Windsor Uniform (Canada and Elsewhere) - Full Dress

Full Dress

  • Coatee: (Privy counsellor, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd classes) dark blue cloth, single-breasted, stand collar. The collar and gauntlet are of scarlet cloth for members of the Royal Household, blue for others. Nine buttons up the front, showing between the two embroidered edges (which are made to hook), two at the waist behind, and two at the bottom of the back skirts. White silk linings. A white stiff starched detachable 'patrol' collar may be worn inside the collar of the coat, affixed using the five studs installed inside the coat's collar.
    • Gold oakleaf embroidery on the fronts as follows: privy counsellors not more than 5 inches (13 cm) wide at the base of each front; 1st class, not more than 4+1⁄2 inches (11 cm); 2nd class, not more than 4 inches (10 cm); and 3rd class, not more than 3 inches (7.6 cm), but to spread across the chest according to figure.
    • The collar, pocket flaps, back, skirts, back skirts, and side edges are also embroidered.
    • The embroidery on the cuffs should not exceed the following widths: privy counsellors 5 inches (13 cm); 1st class, 4+1⁄2 inches (11 cm); 2nd class, 4 inches (10 cm); 3rd class, 3 inches (7.6 cm). Privy counsellors have purl edging, 1st class wavy edging worked with rough purls, 2nd and 3rd class saw edging.

Full dress coatee is optional. Levée coat may be substituted for it, at the choice of the wearer.

  • Buttons: gilt, mounted, the Royal Arms with supporters.
  • Coatee for 4th, 5th classes as levée.
  • Breeches: white kerseymere, with three covered buttons at the knee.
  • Hose: white silk.
  • Shoes: black patent leather.
  • Hat: privy counsellors – black beaver cocked hat, black silk cockade, treble gold bullion loop and tassels, with hangers (these by 1912 no longer hang, and now take the form of ornaments fixed on the top of the tassels, which do not hang). White ostrich feather border. 1st class: as above, but without hangers to the tassels. 2nd class: as above, with double gold bullion loop, gold tassels without hangers. 3rd, 4th and 5th classes: as above, with plaited gold bullion loop, and black ostrich feather border. No tassels.
  • Sword: of regulation pattern with black scabbard and gilt mountings.
  • Sword knot: gold lace strap with bullion tassel.
  • Sword belt: white web, with white cloth frog. Blue cloth frog in levée dress.
  • Buckles (knee and shoe): gilt, rose, shamrock, thistle pattern (by 1912).
  • Gloves are not worn.

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