No button on the cape or collar, and no lace round the pocket flaps. The same as the full dress, excepting the lace and a rolling cape instead of standing collar.įull dress and undress the same as a captain, excepting the Master Commandant to wear one epaulet on the right shoulder. The vest single breasted, four buttons to the pockets, the buttons the same as the coat, only proportionably smaller. THE COAT of blue cloth, with broad lappels and lining of the same a standing collar, and to be trimmed with gold lace, not exceeding one half inch in breadth, nor less than three eighths of and inch, in the following manner, to wit: Round the standing collar, and to descend round the lappels to the bottom of the coat the upper part of the cuffs, round the pocket flaps, and down the folds, with one single lace four buttons on the cuffs and on the pocket flaps, nine on the lappels, and one on the standing collar two gold epaulets the buttons of yellow metal, with the foul anchor and American eagle, surrounded with fifteen stars. ![]() A Number of the senior officers of the Navy of the United States, having suggested certain alterations in the established "Uniform Dress," which, in their opinion, would greatly conduce to the convenience and comfort of the officers, and still retain an appearance equally elegant and consistent: the following description of the "Uniform Dress," for the officers of the Navy of the United States, is substituted for that hitherto established and is to take effect on the first day of January, 1814, to which, all officers therein designated, are ordered to conform.
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