dinner dress, ceremonial, service dress, and
working uniforms.
Figure 7-8 shows dinner dress uniforms. You
normally wear these uniforms to the types of
official functions that are equivalent to your
civilian counterpart’s black tie function. The
dinner dress blue jacket and dinner dress white
jacket uniforms are optional. If the official
function calls for this type of uniform, you should
wear it if you have one. If you do not have the
uniform, you may wear another prescribed
uniform. You should already have combinations
of the dinner dress. blue, dinner dress white, and
tropical dinner dress blue uniforms. Although you
may not always wear the same components for
these functions, you will wear the same basic
uniform.
Full dress blue and full dress white are
variations of the service dress blue and service
dress white uniforms. You wear medals on these
uniforms instead of the ribbons that you wear on
service dress uniforms.
You normally wear full dress uniforms on
ceremonial occasions. Such occasions include
change of command, official visits with honors,
and visits to foreign men-of-war and official
dignitaries.
Figure 7-9 shows service dress white and
service dress blue uniforms. You normally wear
this uniform to official functions that do not
prescribe formal dress, dinner dress, or full dress
uniforms. The civilian equivalent would be a coat-
and-tie function. Service dress blue yankee (fig.
7-9), an optional uniform made up of components
Figure 7-9.-Full and service dress uniforms.
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