Canada
The No. 2 (Mess) Dress is a formal evening attire for mess dinners. Uniforms range from full mess dress (with dinner jackets, cummerbunds or waistcoats, etc.) to service dress with bow ties. Mess dress is not provided at public expense; however, all commissioned officers of the regular forces are required to own mess dress within six months of being commissioned. In the Royal Canadian Navy, gold-laced trousers are generally worn by all commissioned officers (that is, they are not restricted to captains and flag officers). Blue waistcoats are not commonly worn.
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Famous quotes containing the word canada:
“Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might be the colored portion of the map, is but a little clearing on the banks of the river, which one of those syllables would more than cover.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.”
—Robertson Davies (b. 1913)
“This universal exhibition in Canada of the tools and sinews of war reminded me of the keeper of a menagerie showing his animals’ claws. It was the English leopard showing his claws.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)