You want to prove the "pyrate" look wrong you might want to go the
other way about. Bring in documentation of historic dress in the golden age
of piracy (a period beginning at the earliest in the middle 17th century and
usually depicted more around the turn to the 18th). I say this because such
research will show that the "pyrate" look when historically inspired at all,
is just garish example of the civilan dress of the time. The very argument
you are in fact making. Elizabethan pirates probably would even get to be
garish! Elizabethan pirates where entirly differnt creatures than the
brethren of the coast sorts. The line between honest merchant and pirate
were very slim. Beyond that there was no navy in the modern sense. English
pirates in the 16th century were more often than not pirates by oppurtunity
than prediliction. Honest sailors who had taken advantage of situation that
appears, pirated some other poor merchant, and than continued with their
previous legal operation. While there were areas in England where acts of
piracy regularly occured, these tended to be more of a smuggling and
"wreckers" type activities. There really was not a pirate culture as would
later flourish in the Caribbean, American and Madagascar ports.
Ron Carnegie
Hi Julie,
Thanks for resisting the pun... I am sure we all can come up with
something.
This is exactly why I am looking up what they wore, because it was my
hunch they wore what everyone else wore, but I have no proof of that, and
it is the visual proof I am looking for. I am going to be doing a visual
lecture on Costume Myths for our local Ren-faire people.
See, we are currently finding a number of people involving themselves at
our local Renaissance faires wearing the stereotypical "Pirate" garb,
which is a much later time frame. While the faire promoters aren't sure
what to do about it (except for one who has embraced it as her faire
theme), I am hoping to show people visual images of what exactly they did
wear, or at least as much info about it as I can. If they want to ignore
it, and continue to wear the Capt'n Jack Sparrow outfits... at least I
tried.
And yeah, if you got a hubby willing to dress like Capt'n Jack... oye.
Enjoy yourselves. ;-)
I fell in love with my husband because he enjoyed wearing kilts... I
really like men in kilts.
Kimiko
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