For this Halloween season, why not dress up as one of the most recongnizeable characters of all time; the Pirate. In this sexy Pirate Captain dress, you’ll rule the seas! It features a over coat dress and ruffle collar. Dont forget to add a pirate tricorn hat; pirate boots and pirate sword to complete your Halloween costume!

Now for a little history about Pirates. They are a frequent topic in fiction and are associated with certain stereotypical manners of speaking and dress, some of them wholly fictional: “nearly all our notions of their behavior come from the golden age of fictional piracy, which reached its zenith in 1881 with the appearance of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island.”

Some inventions of pirate culture such as “walking the plank” were popularized by J. M. Barrie’s novel, Peter Pan, where Captain Hook‘s pirates helped define the fictional pirate archetype. Robert Newton’s portrayal of Long John Silver in Disney’s 1950 film adaptation of Treasure Island also helped define the modern rendition of a pirate, including the stereotypical “pirate” accent. Other influences include Sinbad the Sailor, and the recent Pirates of the Caribbean films have helped kindle modern interest in piracy and have succeeded quite handsomely in box office grosses.

The classic Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance focuses on The Pirate King and his hopeless band of pirates on the South coast of England. The Pirate King is often believed to be inspiration for Jack Sparrow. One of the stereotypical features of a pirate, the eye patch, dates back to the Arab pirate Rahmah ibn Jabir al-Jalahimah who wore it after losing an eye in battle in the 18th century.