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:
“I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least several gentlemen or “squires,” there is but one to a seigniory.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)