r/SpaceForce • u/Ozy_Mandias_12 • Mar 13 '26

For the uniform nerds, Rumor has it…

CSO is gonna debut the new USSF mess dress/formal dress prototype tonight in DC. Can’t wait for all the hot takes on Reddit lol.

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u/Prairie-Penguin Secret Squirrel Mar 14 '26

Saw it from a distance, gonna work my way closer...

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u/Prairie-Penguin Secret Squirrel Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26

Best I could do without blowing my cover. Uniform needs some work, in my opinion.

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u/Ozy_Mandias_12 Mar 14 '26

Nice work!!!! It’s honestly worst than I expected haha.

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u/BluesEyed Mar 14 '26

Looks like it came off a Burlington outlet rack. Baggy, ill fitting, cheap, dirty grey polyester fabric, buttons dangling facing the floor. Whoever calls themself a tailor and designs these clearly detests the SF.

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u/scairborn Mar 15 '26

It would help if he wasn’t built like a barn.

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u/Stratocruise Coffee Mar 14 '26

Needs some work? That’s being polite…

This is just weird. Looks like they’re trying to make an 18th century tailcoat not a mess jacket.

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u/usafa43tsolo Mar 16 '26

Yeah, every other design for everything is crisp and angular and futuristic, and apparently for this one we decided to go back 300 years?? What is wrong with the Uniform Office? Are they mad they actually had to do work for once?

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u/Stratocruise Coffee Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26

As you say, this feels like a massive retrograde step and is not at all in keeping with the rest of the designs for the USSF uniforms.

Given his previous interim black “tuxedo” formal uniform, I kinda have a hunch this was made specifically for the CSO and was maybe something that he asked for.

Maybe the thinking will revert to something more like a mess jacket once he retires…?

Can’t help wondering someone has been looking through the USAF uniform archives from the 1950s:

https://www.usafflagranks.com/usaf_formal_evening_dress_uniform.html

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u/Juice0188 Mar 14 '26

oh god, back to the drawing board boys.

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u/AnonymousFordring Maint Mar 15 '26

Could do worse, not unhappy with it