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:
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.