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Branch One: The Coastal Watch

Our lads (and soon enough, ladies) of the King's Eastern Coastal Watch dress primarily in green with brown highlights and pants for the majority of the non-Officer ranks. The style, minus the hat, is very much like this for their jacket:

The jacket is green, with brown on the cuffs and for the vest. Typically, anyone below Major isn't required to wear the vest while on duty, a standard white/offwhite buttoned shirt underneath is more than suitable, but if there's a parade or an event then full dress typically demands a vest to be worn. Vests are usually where are Award pins are displayed, while rank pins are displayed on the jackets (specifically collars, shoulders and breast depending on branch and significance).

Their hat is pretty basic. A beak, the emblem of the Coastal Watch (there are slight differences for which region, Eastern/Northern/Western/Southern (distinction between East and West of the Collapse, the conflict area with the Hostenians). Their hats are green to match the uniform, and bands are added for rank.

For officers, the hats get a bit fancier and different in style, mostly in the sense that a band gets added for each rank and become more prominent/colourful as you climb through the ranks to make it easier to distinguish higher-ranked officers by the heights of the hats. ("High hats" very literal here).

They tend to be significantly fancier in make, bolder/polished beaks, metal embellishments. That kind of deal.

Officer UNIFORMS are similar to the coat above, but the coats are longer, and they have white socks with black buttons up the side that go to just about the knee, the pants are looser and tend to be a softer material.

This is the closest approxiamation I can find specifically for the coat. Higher collar, green instead of blue and brown instead of red. Vests are always worn (unless there's certain extenuating circumstances such as heat concerns, so on, but that's usually for training/more casual drills). White shirt, brown pants with a green stripe up the side.

The medics are pretty basic field attire when working, but for parade/events, they will usually be in the same dress as the regular Watch members/officers.

Lionus, bless his face, is supposed to wear an officer's uniform, and utterly refuses.

Lots of pockets, less buttons to fuck around with, additional straps for holding bags/packs in place better. They have broad belts with lots of pouches to help carry bandages, gloves, tools and medicine as necessary. Same hat as basic Watch Members.

Branch Two: The Inland Watch

The King's Inland Watch follows almost the exact same uniform dress styles as the Coastal Watch, but with stricter adherence to vests. Their coats and vests tend to have more buttons than the Coastal Watch as they are significantly less likely to need to remove their layers and do water rescues/swimming. Their colours are red with black accenting.

Branch Three: The Navy

General Navy attire for non-officer members (but still members of rank above Midshipman/Private) is extremely similar to this, though minus the hat:

Their colors as well are cerulean blue (leaning more towards a lighter version, like Crayola Cerulean/a shade darker than Sky blue), with admiral blue accenting.

Ranks below Major have long, relatively wide-legged pants of light material, white with no accents. Their coats have tails but are fairly short in the front, as shown, and they looooove their shoulder tassels in the Navy. Once you're above Sub-Lieutenant, you get tassels.

The accents on the sleeve-cuffs will be more elaborate as you get promoted.

Midshipmen, specifically, are not required to be in dress like this with the coat unless in parade/there's an event/inspection sort of deal, OR unless they've been assigned as specifically a Captain of a certain area of the ship, though those distinctions are typically reserved for Sub-Lieutenants or Lieutenants. Their coats have no accents on the cuffs or collar, no tassels, and their collar either isn't as tall or is required to be folded down (the Navy is the fastest growing military branch and has been for several years, sometimes the influx of new privates is large and they have to essentially strip the accents off of back-stocked clothing, so it's not uncommon for privates to sometimes wind up with collars that are too high, hence the rule about folding them down.)

This is a VERY similar kind of idea to how the coats change, with some minor details tweaked that I am not able to get like... 1000% into right now or I'll be here all week.

Privates do not wear hats, Lieutenants and everyone up to Admiral wear tricorners with varying bands/ribbons as accent.

Rear-Admiral and up wear Bicorners with feathers/colored bands and so on to express their rank. High-hats applies quite literally here as well: The more important you are, the bigger the hat.

Also the way they wear the bicorn is an indicator of rank, and also indicative of if the officer at the moment is directing just this vessel, or a fleet of any size.

This orientation is specifically "I am just as important off of this fucking boat". Regardless of status of current operation, members of the Royal family and the highest ranked admirals will always wear their hats like this.

Their uniforms are much more dressy as well, starting at Captain and going up through Commander, Commodore and the Admirals:

Differences being very high boots, shoulder tassels, etc. and their pants are white with admiral-blue striping up the side.

I did this as an embarrassingly rough attempt to colour it correctly as a reference for a piece of Henry and Melanie I had commissioned from Aaytaro back in the day, to give you an example:

It is terrible, do not judge me.

Branch Four: Noble Guard

Their colours are black and gold, with lower ranks accenting with white as well. The higher ranked you are, the more solidly black-and-gold your uniform becomes. You are a member of high distinction and require extreme respect, because you are typically dealing with (or are) members of the extended Royal Family.

This, but with white instead of red, and the lower ranks will actually have fully-white breasts beneath the golden embellishments.

Our Lieutenant General, Duchess Ais'lyn Vogunti, wears this specifically:

This typically with pants/a false skirt over pants. Her full attire for parade/events/just being a boss involves a gold-embellished belt with scabbard and saber. She wears an exceptionally large hat, wide brim folded up one side and pinned with a rank-distinguisher/royal emblem (depends on who she's bossing around that day) and very very large white feathers.

Similar to this. Black, gold accents/ribboning/etc.

They also do the high-white-socks thing for the lower ranks specifically, again with more white on your uniform meaning lower rank, less white meaning higher.

I think that's about it for these, but thank you so so so much for your patience! I have at least one more ask to get to but I'm still up to my armpits in trying to move and everything, so hopefully this will all settle out soon. Very glad I got this out while I had a bit of time this morning!