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obitoftheday: Obit of the Day (Historical): “Calico Jack” Rackham (1720) On this date in 1729, the Caribbean pirate “Calico Jack” Rackham was hanged for privateering by the British governor of Port Royal, Jamaica. After his death he was tarred, his body placed in a cage, and displayed as a warning to other pirates. Almost two years earlier to the day, on November 24, 1718, Calico Jack led a mutiny against his captain and won control of the vessel, the Raider. The next year Calico Jack and his crew took possession of their new flagship, the Kingston, which would be his last. Besides his choice of clothing, hence the “calico” moniker, Jack was known for his distinct version of the “Jolly Roger” flag and the presence of two women - disguised as men - on his crew: Anne Bonny, his “wife,” and Mary “Mark” Read. Bonny added her own name to pirate lore when she testified against Jack at his trial. When asked about Rackham’s resistance to capture, Bonny replied: “If he had fought like a man, he need not have been hanged like a dog.” Well then. In the new animated film, The Adventures of Tintin (in theaters December 2011) Tintin searches for the treasure of “Red Rackham,” obviously a reference to “Calico Jack.” Daniel Craig will provide the voice for the pirate. You can can catch a glimpse of the Rackham’s Jolly Roger (0:09) and the captain himself in the trailer. (Image courtesy of wikimedia.org)

obitoftheday:

Obit of the Day (Historical): “Calico Jack” Rackham (1720)

On this date in 1729, the Caribbean pirate “Calico Jack” Rackham was hanged for privateering by the British governor of Port Royal, Jamaica. After his death he was tarred, his body placed in a cage, and displayed as a warning to other pirates.

Almost two years earlier to the day, on November 24, 1718, Calico Jack led a mutiny against his captain and won control of the vessel, the Raider. The next year Calico Jack and his crew took possession of their new flagship, the Kingston, which would be his last.

Besides his choice of clothing, hence the “calico” moniker, Jack was known for his distinct version of the “Jolly Roger” flag and the presence of two women - disguised as men - on his crew: Anne Bonny, his “wife,” and Mary “Mark” Read. Bonny added her own name to pirate lore when she testified against Jack at his trial. When asked about Rackham’s resistance to capture, Bonny replied: “If he had fought like a man, he need not have been hanged like a dog.” Well then.

In the new animated film, The Adventures of Tintin (in theaters December 2011) Tintin searches for the treasure of “Red Rackham,” obviously a reference to “Calico Jack.” Daniel Craig will provide the voice for the pirate. You can can catch a glimpse of the Rackham’s Jolly Roger (0:09) and the captain himself in the trailer.

(Image courtesy of wikimedia.org)

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OKAY I AM SERIOUSLY DONE!

thealwaysamazingme:

So for the past week and a half, I have been trying to make a really nice, relatively accurate Pirate costume for the Renaissance Faire. Should be easy right? Wrong!

This is what pirate women look like

Because of today’s costuming industry, the media, the need to be a damn ho on Halloween because it’s the “only day of the year a chick can get away with looking like a ho because it’s a costume” and other bullshit, I am finding it practically IMPOSSIBLE to make this costume work. Here are some of the reasons why:

1. Shoes:

THESE are not Pirate boots, these are hooker boots.

These, however, are Pirate boots

Notice the flat, easy to walk in heel. These shoes are a good example of Pirate boots. I don’t know what the fuck those heels were, but they certainly we’re Pirate boots.

2. Skirts:

Pirate women generally didn’t wear skirts. They would get in the way, skirts easily can snag on something, or trip somebody, so Pirate women normally wore pants, and if they did wear skirts, they typically peasant skirts

No woman would DARE wear such a skirt in that time period. This outfit is illogical for being on a ship, no matter what ship, while doing work.

This would have the snagging problem I had mentioned before. Also notice how her shoes are shoes that would break on a pirate ship within days of doing work.

3. The costumes in general:

To put together a good Renaissance costume, you need to know a bit about the time period and the clothing I have done my reasearch and concluded that these are not acurate costumes-

Especially the above outfit, I actually did not think it was a pirate costume, but in the description, it said it was, so I guess…

This is the only think REMOTELY close to what I am looking for

Though the I can live with the pants and change the boots, but what bothers me is this was the only one I found. THE ONLY ONE! I am seriously pissed that I can’t find an accurate costume because today the costume is mostly worn by hos. I love pirates and I hate that the female pirates don’t have their dues, women were considered bad luck on a ship, and the few women who were pirates were bad ass.

I don’t appreciate it being so very difficult to make such a costume

Re-blogging for the EXTREME VALIDITY OF THIS POST. It’s so difficult to find women’s pirate clothing, or costume clothing in general because no one makes women’s costume components that aren’t just two pieces of string to tie your girls bits in place.

I too have struggled valiantly in the battle to make a badass pirate costume for meself, and I do hope that everyone who fights this same battle manages to meet with success