OFFICIAL COURT DRESS.
Diagram 236.
1st Class Coat.—Blue cloth, S. B., stand collar, fastened up front with hooks and eyes.
Nine gilt buttons placed up the right forepart, and two at the back.
Gold leaf embroidery on fronts 5 inches wide.
Skirts, backs, collar, cuffs and flaps are also embroidered to correspond, lined with white silk.
The breeches worn with the coat are of white kerseymere with covered buttons and gilt buckles. White silk stockings. Shoes of patent leather with gilt buckle. Sword belt and cocked hat. The entire outfit for a first class official costs about £100.
HALF-STATE OR LEVEE COAT.
1st Class.—Blue cloth, S. B., stand collar, to button nine.
Gold embroidery on collar, cuffs, flaps and back. Buttons at top of pleat, and one at the bottom, lined black silk.
2nd Class.—Same as 1st Class, except that the embroidery is only 4 inches wide, "saw edge."
The Half-State Coat for the 2nd Class is same as for 1st Class, but with narrower embroidery and a "saw edge."
3rd, 4th, and 5th Class wear the same coat on all occasions, it being the same as the 2nd Class Half-State Coat, with rather narrower embroidery. 3rd Class, 3 inches wide, 4th Class, 2 inches. The 5th Class has an embroidered edging, only ⅜ inch wide.
Black silk velvet collar and cuffs to both State and Semi-State Coats, except for King's Household, when they are of scarlet cloth. Trousers of blue cloth with 2½ inch gold lace are worn with Semi-State Coat.
A State Coat is worn by a 3rd Class Minister only when he is a Member of His Majesty's household. Windsor uniform, as worn by His Majesty's household at Windsor, is made of blue cloth, with scarlet cloth collars and cuffs.
It is cut as an Evening Dress Coat (diagram 90).
It has three gilt buttons on each side, two at top of hip pleats, and two at bottom.
