Costume Love {Pirates of the Caribbean}

I want to start a new blog series called Costume Love to share my favorite costumes from everything from movies to Broadway musicals. I'll try to post every week, but we'll see how it goes.

For my first post I'm going to start with Pirates of the Caribbean. These movies are so fun, filled with lots of adventure, awesome sword fights, lots of humor, and some really amazing costumes. All of the fabrics and the syles are just so amazing!

Because the first movie is my favorite, I'll be showing costumes from that film.

All pictures are via the Costumer's Guide.

The plum pirate gown which Barbossa has Elizabeth wear is just beautiful! The pictures of this dress are all really high quality, so if you open the image up in a new tab you can zoom it in to get a good look at some of the details.

 I think what I love most about this dress is the color and the material.

I love this dress Elizabeth wears in the beginning of the movie.

And then there's Will's end outfit. I love his hat! It's just so epic with the huge feather and brim.

Pirate Costume Inspiration

My siblings and I are going to be making a pirate film this summer and I'm excited to be making the costumes for our little film. I've started doing a little research on pirate costumes from movies such as Pirates of the Caribbean. One thing I really want to do is make the costumes feel like they could have come out of the 18th century. I don't know if this is actually going to happen, but it's my goal.

Here's a few of the costumes from Pirates of the Caribbean designed by Penny Rose.

Via The Costumer's Guide

Via the Costumer's Guide

And here's a few other pirate costume's I found on Pinterest.

While I was looking at fashion from the 18th century, the type of clothing that caught my eye was the riding habits of the era. I think that's probably because they were designed for an outdoor activity in the first place. Something along those lines could work.

Riding Waistcoat | V Museum | c. 1790-1795

This riding habit jacket in particular caught my eye. I like the the buttons and embroidery on the front, it has a sort of military influence to it. I also really like the hat.

Riding habit, 1770-1775

The Met: Riding Coat, 1760, English Silk and goat hair

I think the hardest part in making the costumes will be the female pirates because unless I do it just right, a skirt won't work.