What Did Pirates Wear?: The Trendy Fashion

Pirate wear: the trendy fashion

Whenever the thought about Pirates strikes you, the first thing that would often come to your mind be – their appearance, what did Pirates wear? Generally, people have a very ‘standard' opinion about the looks of the Pirates – the dirty, shoddily-dressed sea robbers, each one with his own typical look! Most of the times, people feel ‘Pirates' belong to a category, which is genderless and ageless!


For theme parties and other similar occasions, people have always been trying to get the ‘perfect' Pirate look. As a result, there are traditional pirate costumes offered for sale, along with fabulous ton of the most essential props.

A pirate costume does not is neither costly nor difficult to make. The fact that Pirates did not have any consistent style of dress makes the ‘designing' of the costume much easier. They wore a disparity of loose-fitting clothing, normally whatever they could find. Black, brown, and dark green were their choicest colors for pants. White, purple, red or blue were desired for shirts. To make your look stand above the rest, you should select pants and shirts, which are slightly larger for you!

Accentuate the look with a pair of brown or black boots, and an eye-patch, made from a square black piece of cloth tied with elastic bands at corners. For more ideas, look up sketches of pirates or photos from pirate movies to see how they dressed. You will surely find a variety of styles.
There are some other things you need to attend to for an exceptionally ‘good' look of a pirate. You can add on any of the following to your regular costume –

• A trendy ‘Pirate' hat
• Weapons, like cutlasses and guns
• Fake ‘protruding' teeth
• A bottle of rum
• Gold hoop earrings
• A toy sword

Once you get ‘into the skin' of a pirate costume, you will feel like sailing on the seven seas, making the most of the Pirate's life - dressed to kill in a wonderful pirate costume! To add a greater touch of authenticity to your dress, allow your ‘Pirate' character come out to play! Without doubt, you will have a blast – behaving, talking and strutting like a truly awesome pirate.

There is no limitation to the dress ideas of pirates – let your imagination run wild for the wildest of ‘hit' ideas. At times, children try to get a ‘different' look by tying a ‘bandana' on their head, instead of a hat, or putting on a fake scar or injury mark! They love the feel of whatever they try, giving new areas of pirate dresses to be explored – there simply is no end to experimentation with the pirate look! The interest in the looks of the pirates is heightened time and again with new film release, like the latest one – ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'.

If you can also pick up a few lines from the typical songs of the pirates, you become a master not only of what pirates wear, but also how pirates behave!