Shirts and Politics
See also: Political colourIn the 1920s and 1930s, fascists wore different coloured shirts:
- Black shirts were used by the Italian fascio, and in Britain, Finland and Germany and Croatia.
- Brownshirts were worn by German nazis of the SA.
- The Blueshirts was a fascist movement in Ireland and Canada, and the colour of the Spanish Falange Española, the French Solidarité Française, and the Chinese Blue Shirts Society.
- Green shirts were used in Hungary, Ireland, Romania and Brazil.
- Camisas Doradas (golden shirts) were used in Mexico.
- Silver Shirts were worn in the United States of America.
In addition, redshirts have been used to symbolize a variety of different political groups, including Garibaldi's Italian revolutionaries, 19th century American street gangs, and socialist militias in Spain and Mexico during the 1930s.
In the UK, the Social Credit movement of the thirties wore green shirts.
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