any pics of real Marines officer in Evening Dress A?

[mndoss]

I'm putting my evening dress back together as I need to wear it tomorrow night for our Command and Staff Mess Night and I happened to stumble on this thread from ten years ago! I've only worn the thing once and that was back in 2017 for the Commandant's Ball I went to that year. I had recently been promoted to Major and purchased the evening dress for the ball season. Spent just over $1000 on it and tomorrow will be the second time I've worn it. As mentioned previously it's authorized for all officers and SNCOs to wear it. In the officer community, it's kind of an unwritten rule (for better or worse) that as a Field Grade you wear the evening dress for the birthday ball. Due to deployments, other commitments, and COVID 2017 was the last birthday ball I went too. I've attached a picture of me and my wife from that ball as well as a pic of the jacket I took today after putting it back together for the mess night.