Service dress uniform is the informal type of uniform used by military, police, fire and other public uniformed services for everyday office, barracks and non-field duty purposes and sometimes for ceremonial occasions. It frequently consists of a jacket, trousers, dress shirt, and neck tie, along with orders, medals, and insignia. Design may depend on regiment or service branch, e.g. army, navy, air force, marines, etc. In Western dress codes, a service dress uniform is a permitted supplementary alternative equivalent to the civilian suit - sometimes collectively called undress or "dress clothes". As such, a service dress uniform is considered less formal than both full dress and mess dress uniforms, but more formal than combat uniforms.
Senior officers wearing the service dress of the Royal Australian Air Force, US Marine Corps and US Navy.
Members of the Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Air Force, and Royal Canadian Navy, with the latter two elements wearing their respective No. 3B Service Dress uniforms
Members of the Israeli Defence Force in their olive-green Madei Alef service dress uniform.
General Sir Nicholas Houghton dressed in the British Army's No. 2 Service Dress.
A uniform is a variety of costume worn by members of an organization while usually participating in that organization's activity. Modern uniforms are most often worn by armed forces and paramilitary organizations such as police, emergency services, security guards, in some workplaces and schools and by inmates in prisons. In some countries, some other officials also wear uniforms in their duties; such is the case of the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service or the French prefects. For some organizations, such as police, it may be illegal for non members to wear the uniform.
A variety of uniforms used in the Canadian Militia, 1898.
Uniformed newspaper vendors in Mexico City. Employers in some workplaces require their employees to wear a uniform.
An airline pilot in uniform.
A Russian honor guard wearing their full dress uniforms. Full dress is a formal uniform typically worn in ceremonies.