navy mess jacket

[Biathlonman]

I've just ordered a mess jacket from Mckenzie Frain. Rifle green, plain buttons. Find the style an interesting and valid alternative to "Prince Charlie" jacket. 40 years since I was in army. To those who opine that civilians ought not to wear military styling...Are all civilian pipe bands wrongly dressed?

Looked up what you have on order from Mckenzie Frain. Quite a website, and if your mess jacket looks half as good as the photo, you're going knock 'em dead. Ladies should just take a number and stand in line.

Remember that the British military preserved highland dress for nearly 40 years while the civilian tartan was proscribed, so military styling is OK in my book.

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Looked up what you have on order from Mckenzie Frain. Quite a website, and if your mess jacket looks half as good as the photo, you're going knock 'em dead. Ladies should just take a number and stand in line.

Remember that the British military preserved highland dress for nearly 40 years while the civilian tartan was proscribed, so military styling is OK in my book.

True enough, but during that period (and subsequent periods) military style was virtually the same as civilian style. What made it a uniform was the fact that identical civilian style clothing was worn by a mass of people for the purpose of group identification, something that did not happen in civilian society, with the exception of the "clan tartan". That being the case, it would seem that Highland attire, as we have come to think of it, has always been first and foremost "civilian attire" and it is for that reason that one tries very hard not to make it look like a military uniform.