The legendary red shirt was adopted for the first time in South America. By chance, as often happens with the choices that turn out to be historical. It was 1843, Garibaldi was to give the Italian Legion uniform (which he formed) that had been put at the service of the Republic of Uruguay against Argentina. In a factory in Montevideo was bought at very low prices, a lot of tunics red (for both the workers of the slaughterhouses of salted meat), which remained unsold on account of the conflict. The color was used to hide the stains of blood of animals killed. Back in Italy, Garibaldi wanted to maintain the use of that uniform. The red men made his most easily identifiable (and thus more exposed to enemy fire), but also bore witness to their courage. Initially (in the First War of Independence and the Roman Republic) were few volunteers wore that uniform, which became official only after the Battle of Palestrina, in May 1859. The Expedition of the Thousand, volunteers embarked in civilian clothes. On board during the trip to Marsala, were distributed fifty shirts red. Alexandre Dumas was - on board his yacht Emma - to organize a small traditional factory of red shirts, which allowed almost all partisans to fight in uniform. The same thing happened in 1866, while in 1870, in France, the hunters returned to civilian clothes in the Alps (with the exception of those who had owned a red shirt).
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