The Air Force announced Aug. 4 that women no longer have to wear floor-length skirts with their mess dress uniforms, and can instead wear slacks or regular-length skirts. Mess dress uniforms are ...

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For the first time, the Air Force is allowing female airmen to wear pants instead of the traditional floor-length A-line skirt with their mess dress uniforms. The exception-to-policy memorandum ...

allow female wear of mess dress trousers or slacks, wear of caps for baldness or hair loss due to medical conditions, and beverage consumption while walking in uniform. Last year, the Air Force ...