This summer I will attend at least one (may be as many as three) mid 19th century events, and I’ve been molding over what to wear.
I do have two dresses (green 1840s & pasiley 1850s) from this time period since before, but non which take in to account the (presumed) heat of a nice summer day.
Then I found the perfect solution: A nice cool Garbardi blouse!
(that’s what I thought before the great Isabella of “Isabellas project diary” pointed out my mistake in this great clarifying blog post)
So now I just call it a mid century blouse (or waist)
Here are a few examples I found:
Red blouse.
I adore this whole outfit.
Serious rushing.
Subtle plaid
Love the color and pattern on this one.
Hi! The garibaldi blouse is actually distincly different from the waists you posted. Here are a couple of images of the garibaldi images:
https://books.google.com/books?id=-YBMAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=pattern&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dSp7Usu_IMzJsQTe-YJI#v=onepage&q=garibaldi&f=false
The waists or spencers are what I think you are looking for:
http://what-i-found.blogspot.com/2012/11/civil-war-fashions-engravings-from-1864_12.html
https://books.google.com/books?id=-YBMAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=pattern&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dSp7Usu_IMzJsQTe-YJI#v=onepage&q=spencer&f=false
https://archive.org/stream/godeysladysbook1863hale#page/n507/mode/1up
I swore I wrote on this subject last year but it turns out I didn’t. I guess I should get cracking on that, shouldn’t I? 🙂
http://isabelladangelo.blogspot.com/2015/05/garibaldi-blouse-what-it-is-and-what-it.html
Managed to find all my old research quickly and put together a post.
Thank you so much for correcting me – I admit to not doing any research on this one, but just trusted the pictures description (stupid internet to play it false 😉 )
I’ve now corrected myself, and linked to your great post (hope that’s OK)
Thank you again for helping me learn and be better 🙂
Awesome! I’m glad I could help. It confused me too when I first started trying to look it up and noticed the discrepancy between what re-enactors were calling a Garibaldi and what it really was.