This surviving example of the dress uniform of the 9th Lancers shows the scarlet jacket worn from 1831 to 1842. Certainly the jacket and epaulettes date from this period but many of the other items belong to a later period. The all-gold pouch-belt and waist-belt were taken into wear around the mid 1840s, and worn until the end of dress uniform in 1914. The cap-lines show the flounders and tassels that may have been similar in pattern to the ones worn in the 1830s but the six rows of lines over the shoulder indicate that these cap-lines are later. The lance cap has a gilt edge to the peak which was added after 1842.
But the details of the jacket itself can be seen clearly here. Of special interest is the detail of the cuff. The embroidery around the top of the blue cuff and the slightly narrower layer of embroidery around the scarlet slash flap are of a striking pattern. The 1834 Dress Regulations state that the slash flap should have five buttons but this example has six. The pattern of embroidery is repeated on the collar which the DR says should be 3 inches deep. The gold embroidery covers the front of the collar, 5 inches on each side, leaving only a few inches of blue collar showing at the back. The back of the jacket does not have any piping up the back seams. There is a small tail showing below the gold laced girdle which is decorated with gilt buttons and blue turn-backs.
