The Royal Navy has allowed officers to wear saris in order to make its formal dress code more “inclusive”. Officers are now permitted to wear cultural dress beneath their mess jackets on ...

The latest change follows nearly three decades since the Navy's previous major update to mess dress regulations in 1996, when officers were first permitted to wear tartan kilts or skirts.

The new cultural mess dress policy applies to anyone in the Royal Navy (RN) entitled to wear mess kits and is only applicable at formal mess dinners. An RN spokesperson told TOI: “Wearing ...