The stable jacket was a close-fitting waist-length jacket, usually worn with dress breeches and knee boots. It was of scarlet cloth with dark blue velvet collar and cuffs. The gold lace was one inch wide, around the collar, down the front and the hem with two pear-shaped eyes at the bottom of each back seam. The jacket fastens with hooks and eyes and has small gilt studs closely placed, all the way down the front, although these are not mentioned in Dress Regulations. The 1891 Dress Regulations name this jacket as a Stable Jacket but the 1900 DR describes the same garment as Mess Jacket. This uniform was also used for evening wear, left open at the front, showing an embroidered waistcoat. From the late 1890s officers on stable duties mostly wore either the frock or patrol jacket.
The enlarged detail below shows the blue velvet collar edged with Double Wave pattern gold lace and having the same embroidered regimental badge as the tunic. The plaited gold shoulder cords, showing the rank of captain, were also similar in pattern to those on the tunic.
The pill box forage cap had phased out around this time and was being replaced by the peaked forage cap. The gold laced pouch-belt is not the same KDG regimental pattern belt that appears on the dress uniform. These two uniforms are displayed together, with other items like boots and gauntlets, so that the dating of 1905 is based on the assumption that this stable jacket, having the rank of captain, belonged to the same officer but some time later.
