marine corps uniform regulations - US

2000. DESIGNATION OF UNIFORMS
MARINE CORPS UNIFORM REGULATIONS 2000
CHAPTER 2
DESIGNATED UNIFORMS AND OCCASIONS FOR WEAR
1. Designated uniforms will be worn only as authorized by this chapter.
Commanders may prescribe as the uniform of the day only those uniforms listed
in male and female minimum requirements lists, as provided by annual edition
of MCBUL 10120 for enlisted and chapter 9 of this manual for officers.
Commanders authorized supplementary allowances per MCBUL 10120 may prescribe
uniforms provided by the allowance.
2. Authorized uniforms for Marine officers are designated as evening dress,
blue dress, blue-white dress, service, and utility uniforms.
3. Authorized uniforms for enlisted Marines are designated as blue dress,
service, and utility. The evening dress and blue-white dress uniforms are
authorized for wear by staff noncommissioned officers (SNCOs).
4. The blue dress and blue-white dress uniforms, except blue dress “A” and
blue-white dress “A”, and service uniforms may be prescribed for leave and
liberty within the United States.
2001. EVENING DRESS UNIFORMS (See figs. 2-1 through 2-6.)
1. The officers' evening dress "A" uniform will be prescribed for official
formal evening functions at which civilians would normally wear evening
clothes or "white tie" during both winter and summer. The evening dress "A"
uniform with white waistcoat for male officers and long skirt for female
officers is appropriate for the following "white tie" occasions:
a. State occasions at the White House, or at foreign Embassies/Legations.
b. Inaugural receptions and dinners.
c. Formal dinners.
2. The officers' evening dress "B" uniform with scarlet waistcoat (general
officers only) or scarlet cummerbund (all other officers) will be prescribed
for official social functions at which civilians would normally wear dinner
dress or "black tie" during both winter and summer. Females may wear the
long or short skirt, depending on the degree of formality of the function.
The evening dress "B" uniform is appropriate for the following "black tie"
occasions:
a. Club affairs.
b. Dinner parties.
c. Dinner dances.
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