full dress vs mess kit

full dress

noun
  • Clothing worn on formal occasions. 

adj
  • Requiring a full-scale operation with attention to every minute detail. 

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 full dress and mess kit occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )