Inventing the Pirate Outfit
“Only Johnny Depp looked like Jack Sparrow [in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean]. Pirates wore typical maritime clothing of the day, with pirate captains and those with more money donning more expensive outfits,” explained historian Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos in an article for Georgetown University.
So, all that onscreen fashion was different from the reality, except for Jack Sparrow’s outfit. But there are a few accurate things among the typical pirate outfit. Let’s check them out in the next photo.