Once upon a time ago there was a bunch of people of all ages, generally speaking quite young, who decided that it was time to unify Italy. Flamed by words that, crossing barriers and frontiers inspired peaceful liberal revolutions in nations with a well set unitarian history, they equipped with good will, courage and the strenght of ideals, for Italy they took a great risk, the highest. This bunch of believers and probably a bit fou idealists actually made it. Their personal human roads of all of them should be told, but that's another story, or probably not. The dresses they were wearing, the red coats, symbol of the unification of Italy that is celebrating its 150th anniversary, are treasured with love in a tiny little museum in the town where the Garibaldinis suffered one of the worst defeats from the French, they would have soon after won in the very same place, victory that would have been the prelude to the Porta Pia breach and to the liberation of Rome from the excessive secular power of the pope. Those dissimilar uniforms, tailored by female hands in great secret, need a constant upkeep. We would love to know that, by virtue of the love for the homeland, some important name of Italian 'alta moda', while keeping up the name of the made in Italy worldwide, would decide to repair those textures so delicate and precious that seem to be mirroring the historical and social Italian texture, to preserve and enhance them, remembering that the unification was created by those red coats.
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