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Anyway, go to the goodwill bins, and grab yourself a ton of cheap cloth. Just random bulk cloth. Try to score some very oversized pants, a very oversized button up shirt that does not have a regular collar, several vests and a long jacket (tacky and patterned is nice). Then go to Fred Meyer and buy one of those pairs of $8 stripey socks they have that come up past your knees.

Put on the pants, then the shirt, then start wrapping cloth around. Sash belts, head scarves, cross-chest sashes to hang stuff on, etc. Go to any thrift store and score yourself some brass stuff. Just. . . stuff. Candle lanterns, old-style spoons, buckles, anything. Hang the bits in various places on your costume so they look like unexplainable knick-knacks. Pull the socks up on the outside of the pants and stick your feet into low-cut shoes (finding Pirate boots is really tough, though women luck out a bit more often than men).

The effect will be Caribbean as opposed to Pacific pirate, but very much like Jack Sparrow.

Last: the hat. If you want one, go to a thrift store and grab the wides-brimmed hat you can find. Anything up to and including a sombrero will do. Then take it home, get the shower running as hot as you can, and soak it. Stick the hat in there, get it wet, crumple it up and really wring it. Then mold it into a tri-cornered design.

Pirate costume= $25