#cocked hat

Royal Navy cocked hat, belonged to Midshipman Augustus J. Crichton, 1820s

floppy triangular *bastards*

Napoleonic era bicornes

So, here’s the contents of my pirate garb/kit, all laid out. All real materials, all leather/linen/muslin/cotton, no polyester. I got into pirate stuff with the thought process that a cheap Halloween costume is around $50, deluxe Halloween costumes are around $150, so, for double that I should have a great looking pirate kit. I could not have been more wrong. This is close to $2,900 ish. Turns out real leather cost a lot of money, commissions from leather workers cost a lot of money, even making stuff yourself, supplies cost a lot of money. In fact just having the money to throw at the look isn’t enough, most things that you want don’t exist for convenient purchase. Many things here have been commission pieces made just for me from leather workers over various continents or homemade as there aren’t people making the exact product I want. Everything here is period accurate for 1715, not saying everything in here is common to the year, just there’s no reason some of the stuff couldn’t exist. Just because a treasure is buried doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist (a very unpopular reenactor though process and why I clash with most reenactors).  This includes a leather-made tricorn (uncommon) made for me from England, a functional firing Queen Anne Flintlock made in Italy, a custom made baldric, a custom engraved telescope plate, replica grenades of those found in the Queen Anne’s Revenge (and Black Sam Bellamy’s “Whydah” shipwrecks), leather boots from Italy, non-costume silver rings that wont turn (one is onyx, another tiger’s eye, another garnet), keys that go to a replica of a early 18th century padlock (which is on my suitcase this is all stored in), period compass, a 1060 tempered steel hanger (cutlass) (sharpened), and then just everything else. Including makeup, for creating dirt and grime and scars, necklaces made by myself, clothing I’ve either had made by my gf (calico waistcoat), waistcoat (grey) I’ve made myself, and pants I’ve altered and shirts I’ve distressed. Please feel free to ask me any questions about anything. This was not purchased all at once, but over the course of a year and a half bit by bit. If you need to start somewhere, get yourself a pair of striped beach pants ($30) a shirt on etsy ($30), a waistcoat of sorts ($80), and a sash ($18) and belt ($20). Just make sure it’s all neutral and not-vibrant colors, this is me doing my best to look like a background extra or fit into the look presented by Black Sails, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Cutthroat Island, while also researching the hell out of everything to separate fact from fiction and portray a pirate in the year of 1715.  Reenactors have a key rule, of “portray the average, not the exception”, which is a carry-over from being used to portraying militias from various eras with uniforms, and while there are averages in any era there are also exceptions and an exception is what I’m portraying (I’m pretty frowned upon for my kit). But basically, start with pants/breeches, a shirt, a waistcoat, and a waist sash/belt to hold it all together. Then you can start throwing money at leather and iron.   But yes, please shoot me any questions/asks you have about any of my pieces, whether its price/where I got it, or why its included, what makes it accurate etc. :)

From the closet of Black Sails: Lieutenant James McGraw’s bicorn, dress and undress coat.

”Frederick the Great” playing Boehm flute in park by perttusironen

Lady Pirate from Sea of Thieves