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Pirate costumes for your christmas party

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Fancy trying to make a pirate costume? there are many ways you could make your first attempt. You could make it yourself, or gather pieces you find to develop the look. Some great resources are second hand stores, where you will come across affordable and unique materials, clothing, and one or two accessories for your costume.

If, on the other hand you just don’t have the time to make your costume, there are some superb pirate costumes to purchase ready-made. You will also come across hair products you need to make your costume complete.

Decide if you want to look like a particlaur pirate character, whether it’s a historical pirate or a pirate character from a film. Pirate costumes are great fun for parties for women and men, and can be adorable for couples and children.

Dark trousers are a basic for pirate costume are dark pants and are often quite baggy, trimmed below the knee. For women, a peasant-type skirt is very feminine, and depending on your age and preference you can make it short or long. For tops, a simple and baggy white button-up shirt would fit the bill - if you can find one with ruffles that would be even better.

For accessories, look for tall boots, a pirate hat or bandanna, a sash, and a sword. You can also look for flashy gold jewelry to fit the pirate theme - remember this is the kind of stuff they were after.

The appeal of pirate costumes ctd

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

The great news is that if you are planning on going to a fancy dress party and you want to deck yourself out in a pirate costume then the varieties that are available to buy are enormous. This was true before the advent of the Johnny Depp movies but since then it has gone absolutely crazy. The biggest problem that you are going to have is deciding just how far you want to go with your outfit. You can keep it relatively simple or you can really go to town with it. Are you content with just wearing a stripey top, an eye-patch and a bandana? Or do you want to really push the boat out (so to speak…) and make your pirate costume really authentic? If you have a look at some fancy dress outfit suppliers then you will soon come up with all manner of costumes. Getting dressed up as a buccaneer isn’t a case of one universal costume. There are all sorts of styles to consider. Will you wear a waistcoat? What about a parrot to sit on your shoulder? Will you opt for a musket, sword or dagger?

If you decide to wear a pirate costume to a fancy dress party then you will find that it will be a great choice and you are bound to have plenty of fun planning exactly what you are going to wear.

Pirate costumes and accessories

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

If you fancy dressing up as a pirate, the first thing you’d think is “what did Pirates wear? Dirty, shoddily-dressed sea villains, with their own indivudual style! Pirates are genderless and ageless!

For theme parties there are traditional pirate costumes on offer together with any type of accessory you could want

They are also not costly to make. They did not have a consistent style of dress making the ‘designing’ of the costume easier. They usually wore loose-fitting clothing, whatever they could find. Black, brown, and dark green were often their choicest colors for trousers.

Highlight the look with brown or black boots, and an eye-patch, made from a square black piece of cloth tied with elastic bands. Take a look at sketches of pirates or photos from pirate movies to see how they dressed.
Here are some essentials normally associated with our pirate:

• A ‘Pirate’ hat
• Cutlasses and guns
• False ‘protruding’ teeth
• A bottle of rum
• Golden hoop earrings
• A sword

Once you get ‘into the skin’ , you will feel like taking to the seas, making the most of the Pirate’s life - dressed to plunder .