Enlisted Navy Dress Blue Uniform WWII Impressions, Inc. Dating from the nineteenth century, the U.S. Navy boat cloak was still an optional item for the evening dress uniform in the 1950s. Decades after falling out of fashion, the cape finally U.S. Navy Service Dress Uniform at Boston Costume Framed U.S. Navy Evening and Dinner Dress Blue Uniforms 1967 by Hugh Charles McBarron