_Officers having permanent appointments in the Staff Corps_ and Departments (except Engineer and Quartermaster officers), dark blue cloth without any stripes. _Officers of the Engineer Corps._—Dark blue cloth with scarlet stripes having a one-eighth inch piping of white through the center of each stripe. _Officers holding permanent appointments in the Quartermaster Corps._—Dark blue cloth with buff stripes. _Officers of cavalry._—Sky-blue cloth with stripes of yellow. _Officers of Artillery._—Sky-blue cloth with stripes of scarlet. _Officers of Infantry._—Sky-blue cloth with stripes of white. The dress cap for General officers (except the Quartermaster General, Brigadier Generals of the Quartermaster Corps and the Chief of Coast Artillery) has a band of blue-black velvet one and three-quarters inches wide, upon which is embroidered in gold a design of oak leaves, and upon the visor there are two sprays of oak leaves embroidered in gold. The dress caps for the Quartermaster General and Brigadier Generals of the Quartermaster Corps and for the Chief of Coast Artillery are the same as for other General officers except that the cap for the Chief of Coast Artillery has the band of scarlet velvet and that for the Quartermaster General and Brigadier Generals of the Quartermaster Corps have the band of buff velvet. The dress cap for Field officers (Colonels, Lieutenant Colonels and Majors) of all branches is the same as that for General officers, except that the band is decorated with two bands of gold lace braid one-half an inch wide, one at the top and one at the bottom of the band with a strip of cloth three-quarters of an inch in width between the two gold bands, the color of the cloth being the distinctive color of the arm of the service or staff corps to which the wearer belongs, these distinctive colors being the same as those for the “facings” of the uniforms. When the saber is worn with the dress uniform the belt is worn under the coat, with full dress slings. The overcoat is worn with the dress uniform when necessary, and the cloak, or blue cape, may be worn when the officer is not on duty with troops under arms. When mounted officers in dress uniform wear dress breeches of cloth of the same color as their dress trousers and with the same stripes, black boots, white leather gloves and spurs.