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Thursday, July 15, 2010

Pirate Shirt Fashion Trends For 2010

Pirate boots make an essential part of great pirate fashion clothing, which also include pirate shirts, coats, pants and skirts. Pirates, who were ruthless robbers during the renaissance or medieval era, had their own distinguishable style of dressing. Knee high leather boots, which also known as over-the-knee (OTK) shoes, varies in length reaching just over the knee to reaching slightly below the crotch. In ancient times, pirate boots were made of a variety of leathers.
Height of heels can vary ranging from flat to more than three inches, while heel styles can vary from metal-spikes to chunky. Pirates preferred to wear thigh-high boots with strong heels during their dangerous and long sea voyages. Thigh-high boots with strong heels were very helpful to pirates during dangerous acts such as battles. But in modern times, leather shoes are made of a variety of materials such as leather, vinyl and latex. Different kinds of fabrics, for instance polyester micro-fiber and silk, are also used to make pirate shoes. Now, pirate clothing become a symbol of fashion rather than a necessity of sea voyagers.
The coats and pants were often loose because pirates used to steal even cloths from sea travelers. Pants generally worn by English They were called breeches. Knitted caps, which were called Monmouth caps, gold hoops earrings, bracelets, chains, pins, pendants, Braids and ribbons were the other accessories used by pirates. Flamboyant the captains used to wear waistcoats, which were often worn by upper class. Their breeches were made of fine velvet. An elaborate satin and leather sash would run across pirate captain's coat. His clothing was often decorated with precious metals such as gold.
Pirate clothing is a part of renaissance or medieval clothing as used to dress themselves up with these over-the-knee boots and other clothing accessories during the renaissance or medieval era. There was a reason behind the way pirates preferred such ostentatious style of clothing. Actually, there clothing had to represent their status as ruthless robbers and the amount of wealth they accumulated by robbing other ships.

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