un-garibaldi-ed

Updated: June 5, 2025

The Italian hero entered that beautiful palace, where a grand company of the nobility were waiting to receive him, attired in a rough gray overcoat and trousers, a large pork-pie hat, a loose black neck-tie, and a red flannel shirt. This he never changed I mean his style of dress, not the shirt but Garibaldi would have been quite un-Garibaldi-ed in an English evening suit.

Grace Greenwood - Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood