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 ...

Aug. 4 (UPI) --The Air Force announced Tuesday that it will now allow women to wear pants with their mess dress uniform. The service said in a press release that the policy change stemmed from ...

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 ...

Women’s Mess Dress Slacks The new women’s mess dress slacks will provide Air Force women an option in addition to the current mess dress skirt and men’s mess dress trousers. The slacks will ...

For formal mess dress, women have also been given the option to wear dress slacks more often instead of the A-line skirt that accompanies that uniform, Wright said. Separately, the Air Force is ...