costume


 * Males **

Females
Long skirts, dark and light colours bandanas, jewellery (same reason for boysnd jewellery Clothing, tri-cornered hat, bandana, knitted caps, waistcoats, stockings, shirts, doublet or coat, and breeches - trousers that were generally worn by the English pirates.

You can make your own pirate costume out of lots different things. You can make one from scratch using a white long-sleeve shirt, pen, scissors, eyelets, hammer, leather cording, black sweat pants, paint, vest, scarves, and buttons. (The paint will be used on the sweat paints to create the striped look, or you could simply buy striped pants) The bottom of the pants can be cut off in a jagged way so they look old and us

Breeches, blouses, canvas shorts, rags, cloaks, rich silks and torn shirts. there many different types of clothes that pirates wore. They also wore long coats with large cuffs and neck-cloths tied up tight around the neck which were called stocks back then. Most pirates wore knitted caps. Most had shoes some had hats and sometimes an eye patch. They all had weapons. Most pirates had at least three weapons e.g. muskets, daggers, knife, pistols, sword etc.

====Many pirates wore the same outfits, although they were all different colours whether it was the deep red headband to cream white shirt. Many of their clothing were always soon splashed with blood. All of their outfits were bought and worn the rest of year or years till it became rotten and fell off, that means they only ever had one outfit wore it till it was dead and then got rid of it when was rotten. The semen always wore barefoot compared to the wealthy who took great pride into their looks from the tips of their toes to top of their heads. During the hot summer weather many of the pirates felt the need to run around in the nude (in other words they chose to work naked!). Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake, Thomas Cavendish, Jacques Sores, Francois Le Clerc and lots of other pirates dressed in costumes appropriate to their rank. They wore either a hose or a combination of hoses and breeches (They are close fitting or baggy trousers tied with ribbons or garters near their knees).====