fancy dress vs mess kit

fancy dress

noun
  • Formalwear. 

  • A costume, disguise to masquerade as something or someone else. 

mess kit

noun
  • A formal uniform, worn for occasions such as mess dinners. 

  • A compact set of eating utensils (including plate, cup, utensils) and sometimes cooking pots etc, used in the field by soldiers and by campers. 

How often have the words fancy dress and mess kit occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )