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Dress Uniforms
29thChief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead wearing the service dress blue uniform for flag officers.
11th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Joe R. Campa, Jr. wearing the service dress blue uniform for chief petty officers.
Quartermaster Dick Libby, USN, wearing the service dress blue uniform of c.1834
Full dress uniforms during a change of command ceremony (officer, center, flanked by enlisted)
The United States Navy has three categories of dress uniforms, from least to most formal: service, full, and dinner dress.
Service Dress
Officers & Chief Petty Officers
The most common uniform, the dress uniform, has three variations for officers and chiefs, but only two for enlisted personnel below Chief Petty Officer (CPO). These uniforms are typically worn during ceremonies, inspections, or watches.
Officers' and Chiefs' service dress depends on the season, with Service Dress White ("Whites") for warm weather wear and Service Dress Blue ("Blues") for cooler temperatures (Note: The Service Dress Blue may be worn any time of year). The uniform to be used in a particular region is set forth based on the climate by a prescribing authority, in accordance with Navy regulations, such as the admiral in charge of the region where the sailor is stationed. For instance, a command in Florida will be in summer uniforms longer than one in New York, or might never switch to winter uniforms (such as Hawaii or Puerto Rico). With these uniforms, ribbons and badges are worn, but not medals.
The dress blue uniform consists of a navy blue suit coat, trousers, white shirt, and four-in-hand necktie. The material is generally wool or a wool blend, depending on the vendor. The men's jacket is double breasted with six gold-colored buttons, and the women's jacket has a single row of four gold-colored buttons. Rank insignia is the gold sleeve stripes, for officers, while rating badges and service stripes are worn on the left sleeve by CPOs. The prescribed headgear is the white combination cap, although a navy blue garrison cap is optional, unless stated otherwise by the prescribing authority, in some situations when the jacket is not worn.
The service dress white uniform is very divergent for the men's and women's variations. Men wear a high stand-collared white tunic, with navy blue shoulder boards for officers or the metal anchor collar device on the collar for CPOs, white trousers and shoes. This uniform is informally called Chokers, due to the stand collar. The material is a weave of polyester known as "Certified Navy Twill," or CNT. Women wear a uniform similar to the service dress blue, but with a white coat, skirt or trousers. The white combination cap is the prescribed headgear. A noticeable difference between the male uniforms and the female uniforms is the placement of the women officer's rank insignia on the sleeves (in the same manner as that on the blue uniform) and the placement of women CPO rank insignia (the fouled anchor with USN mongram and five-pointed cocked "line" stars) on the lapels of the jacket. Uniquely, the shoes worn with this uniform are white.
The rarely seen but authorized Dress Blue Yankee uniform replaces the dark trousers and black shoes of the service dress blue with white trousers and shoes from the white uniform. This variation is colloquially referred to as 'salt and pepper' (Service Dress Blue Yankee for male and for female officers.)
Either the All-Weather Coat, Overcoat, or Reefer may be worn with Service Dress uniforms in cold or inclement weather.
Enlisted
The service dress uniforms for enlisted personnel is the standard naval jumper, which consists of navy blue wool or white Certified Navy Twill as above. Service Dress Whites ("jumper whites") consist of white straight-leg or bell-bottom trousers with a fly front, black leather shoes, a white jumper with plain "tar flap" collar, a black silk neckerchief and a white "Dixie Cup" hat for males or combination cover for females with a silver eagle emblem and the letters "USN." The Service Dress Blue uniform, colloquially referred to as "crackerjacks" (after the sailor boy on the Cracker Jack box), is similar to the white uniform, but navy blue in color, with three rows of white piping on the tar flap collar and cuffs. The trousers for the blue uniform are bell-bottomed, broadfall style, with thirteen buttons (which, dismissing popular belief, does not represent the original Thirteen Colonies of the early United States). Female enlisted sailors' Service Dress Blue is similar to the Chief Petty Officer Service Dress Blue with the exception that silver-colored buttons, rather than gold, are worn on the jacket. Ribbons are worn with these uniforms, over the top left pocket opening (the jumper pockets do not have flaps), along with warfare insignia. If these uniforms are to be assigned as the Uniform of the Day, a Plan of the Day/Plan of the Week will state either "Service Dress White" or "Service Dress Blue." Either the All-Weather Coat or Peacoat may be worn with this uniform in cold or inclement weather. The color of the enlisted rank insignia is either gold or red based upon the U.S. Navy Good Conduct Variation.
Full Dress
Full Dress uniforms are worn for ceremonies such as change of command, retirement, commissioning, and decommissioning, funerals, weddings, or when appropriate. Similar to the service dress, but the "Yankee" variation is omitted, medals are worn with these uniforms where appropriate along with warfare insignia above the medals, and swords are authorized for officers, required for O-4 and above. Ribbons that do not have corresponding medals are worn on the right side. In some cases, usually with Honor Guards, the Full Dress uniform can be "dressed" up even further with the wearing of a white pistol belt, bib scarf and dress aigulette (both of which are white for winter and navy blue for summer), and white canvas gaiters.
Dinner Dress
The dinner dress uniforms of the United States Navy have the most variations. For officers, there are Dinner Dress Blue and Dinner Dress White, Dinner Dress Blue Jacket and Dinner Dress White Jacket, Formal Dress, and Tropical Dinner dress. Although trousers are authorized, women frequently wear the appropriate color skirt. The Dinner Dress Blue/White are like the Service and Full Dress uniforms, but worn with a black bow tie, miniature medals, and badges with no ribbons. The Dinner Dress Blue/White Jacket and the Formal Dress uniforms for men feature a short jacket with six buttons, worn open with a black bow tie. Male officers show rank stripes on the sleeves of the jacket for the blue version and on shoulder boards for the white version, while women officers only wear sleeve stripes. The Formal Dress variation is the short, dark jacket, and trousers, worn with a white bow tie for men.
The Tropical dress uniforms are dark trousers, a gold cummerbund, and a white short-sleeve shirt, worn with shoulder boards or just the rating badge. For all dinner dress variations, a white tie and waistcoat generally are used for formal occasions while a black bow tie and gold cummerbund are used for semi-formal environments. Headgear is not required for all dinner dress uniforms, unless an outer jacket is worn. This uniform is never made the Uniform of the Day, nor is it absolutely required to be retained by naval personnel.
Those under the rank of Lieutenant (O-3) have the option of using the Dinner Dress uniform when Dinner Dress Jacket is prescribed. The enlisted sailors who are E-7 (Chief Petty Officer) and above wear a uniform similar to the officers, but with rank insignia and service stripes on the left sleeve. While enlisted who are E-6 (Petty Officer First Class) and below have Dinner Dress Jacket uniforms similar to the officers and chiefs, they may also wear their Service Dress uniform, the traditional sailor suit, with miniature medals.
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