Renaissance Faire wear - what's the consensus?

[freddie]

My husband typically wears his kilt with a black pirate shirt, black sporran, and big black boots. Someday when I stop spending all of our money on my own costumes, we'll get him a pirate hat and black pirate coat or vest. We tend to lean towards the pirate end of the spectrum at Ren Faires. Scottish Pirates, why not?

Ever heard of John Paul Jones?

[Woodsheal]

The influx of pirates at Renn Faires is nonsensical, as they pretty much all dress as seafarers of the Black Beard, Jack Sparrow "Golden Age" period: 1700-1720, which is at least a century out of whack. (And no pirates, Scottish or otherwise, counted kilts as part of their sea-going garb!)

Anyways, one could easily portray a "sea-dog" of the Elizabethan period - one of Drake's or Hawkin's men - which would look way cooler at the Faire than an anachronistic 18th C. privateer....

[Griogair]