Approaching the traditional party season, with its abundance of corporate evening events and social celebrations aplenty, here we turn our attention to the classic black tie dinner suit, otherwise Framed U.S. Navy Evening and Dinner Dress Blue Uniforms 1967 by Hugh Charles McBarron U.S. NAVY FEMALE OFFICER ENLISTED DINNER DRESS BLUE JACKET Service Dress Blue (Yankee) uniform was for "warm weather afternoon and early evening functions such as yachting parties." The uniform was formally phased out in 2011 : r navy