evening gown vs mess kit

evening gown

noun
  • An evening dress: an elegant dress worn by women. 

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