Talk:Court uniform and dress

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Bold textThis article atm implies that Windsor full dress was/is the only kind of dress worn at court, while this page cites a book with a long list of the different varieties of court dress. I propose moving back the current data to Windsor uniform and writing a short stub saying that Windsor dress was just one kind out of the many types of court dress. At the moment the article is quite misleading. Greentubing 04:04, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

This certainly needs work. It doesn't use the expression "Windsor Uniform" however. This term only applies to the special uniform - or really formal evening dress rather than uniform - worn by members of the royal family. Ncox 04:12, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Surely the dress with yellow braid is Windsor full dress uniform, with the evening dress (livery colours) version being the undress version. See this UK government website which indeed describes the dinner jacket as a uniform and this page (Canadian government website) which clearly shows and identifies full dress Windsor uniform. I think that unless there is evidence to the contrary I am justified in moving back this information to Windsor uniform. Comment spent. Greentubing 04:18, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation or Merging

I think we need to disambiguate this page from Court_dress There seems some overlap with the legal dress so perhaps it may be a case of merging them together.Alci12 18:29, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

• I would think a merger would cause more problems, simply because the article would be in danger of getting too big. There is a clear enough distinction between the two categories of dress.Ncox 21:46, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Women's court dress

The "female" dress section needs to be hugely expanded. This looks to be related to a unique period (not specified) (in particular, trains were not always suspended from the shoulder). There is no mention of the fossilization of side-hoops with Regency style gowns, certainly one of the more bizarre manifestations of court dress in history. Is there an expert in the house? - PKM 23:03, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Culture Specificity

This article seems to primarily refer to court dress at the British royal court; that's where all of the examples are drawn from. It ought to either include examples from other cultures as well, or explicitly state that it is speaking about the English court.

72.148.206.54 (talk) 14:49, 7 March 2008 (UTC)