Cruise travel has continued to grow in popularity due to the great packaged deals they provide, including food, accommodations, transportation, n' entertainment; all encompassed in one price.  It's more bang fer yer buck, plus ye don't have to pack n' unpack yar baggage every time you visit a different location. The big drawback is you are on a huge ship with nobody you know other than yar cabin mate.

Themed Cruise travel such as food, wine, n' music themes have exploded in the past few years.  It allows guests to enjoy a certain hobby with others who share similar interests. Many times more popular themes such as "Star Trek," or "The Walking Dead," take up the entire ship.  Unfortunately, this too has a downside, as these big themed cruises can double the cost due to the expense for the additional entertainment. 

Arrr Pirate's Life Cruise is a small group of united brethren.  It be fer pirate loving souls who wish to seek new acquaintances in the pirating genre 'n rendezvous throughout the many dinners, shore excursions, n' specialty events.  We not be making any money off this cruise, so you are actually getting a better deal than a regular passenger because as a group, we be able to negotiate a Drink Package.

So, why arrrr we doing this cruise without a profit motive?  To have some fun, learn a bit about the hospitality business n' get to know arrrr customers better.  Unlike a Disney cruise, every night on arrr cruise will be a Pirate Night without kids! 

If ye have not signed up yar pirate-lovin' soul, (28 mates have joined the account already-we still have room fer more,) but want to know more about the cruise to the Caribbean, click below:

If yer going to spend yar hard earned doubloons, it best bet be on a high quality pirate or wench outfit.  There be two way to think about about costuming.  

1) Buy a different cheap costume every year 

2) Buy a great outfit that you can improve or change each year.

The average cost of a halloween costume be $96 for men n' $77 fer women, which can get costly over time.  Ye could buy a new costume each year, funneling money into a flimsy costume that will last ye a single night, or make an investment in an amazing outfit that ye be proud to wear n' will last ye years to come.

If yer going to spend $770-$960 on costumes over a ten year span, why not put that money towards a timeless outfit worth wearing again n' again?

Cheap Costume: You don't feel comfortable wearing it, it may fall apart before the night is done, it may not fit right, many other people can be wearing the same costume. 

Quality Outfit: A high quality costume will stand out from the crowd of cheap outfits. More people will ask for a photo.  You will feel like a movie star for a night.  Be part of the cool crowd.  You'll begin building a character that will grow with each year you wear it.

Popularity of Costuming:Costumes n' costumed celebrations have been a part of cultures all across the world throughout history.  Halloween, the most widespread costume holiday, hails from a Celtic Gaelic harvest festival with roots in Scotland, Ireland n' Wales.  Halloweens popularity has spread rapidly over the years, n' has become more popular in countries like Russia, Japan, Canada, Australia, Dubai, Saint Helena, n' most of Europe.  These celebrations aren't just fer kids either; the number of adults that participate in Halloween has grown from a little more than half in 2003 to over 70% in 2018.
Many countries have either adopted halloween or have their own cultural equivalent; this can be seen in countries n' regions like Mexico, Latin America, n' Spain, where people celebrate their loved ones during Dia de Los Muertos n' often have costumed celebrations.  

Outside of holidays, costumes have become a major draw to conventions.  Over the past 10 years cosplay has entered the spotlight as comic, anime, n' sci-fi conversions have grown from an underground niche to mainstream event.  

Why Pirates: In the past 10 years there have only been two costumes that has been consistently relevant enough to be listed within the top ten popular halloween costumes- Pirates n' Witches.  In addition to pirates 10 year reign as some of the most popular costumes, wenches made the listing fer 7 of the 10 years.

Part of what makes a pirate costume such a worthwhile investment is the sheer amount events ye can wear it to- its one costume that ye can wear more than once a year.  There be pirate festivals, Talk Like a Pirate Day celebrations, tall ship festivals, costume parties, Disney Cruises, Pirate Weekend at Renaissance Fairs, n' plenty of games fer sport teams who use pirates n' buccaneers as their mascot.

Pirates have a long history n' spanned across every country that touches the ocean, which allows for all sorts of different periods n' styles of garb.  This versatility allows for pirate costumes to be easily altered fer other events as well; with a little modification a classic pirate outfit could be styled as a colonial for 4th of July or Revolutionary War events.

It has been 5 years since we last redesigned arrrr fine website with responsive coding fer mobile phones.  We didn't want a square stark white ecommerce website like everyone else has.

With this new site we be focusing more on complete pirate n' wench outfits, with separate pages fer pre-made outfits n' making yar own outfit. We added a ship load of new photos, including images for each color n' pattern, so they arrrrr displayed when ye pick that color fer the shopping chest.

If we not be cursed by a rouge pixel stormer or Davy Jones, arrrr new website be up the first week of August.  We would love to hear yar feedback on thePirate Fashions site.

Last August, Disney announce that they will be doing a Pirates of the Caribbean 6. Even though POTC 5 was not a block buster hit like Disney would of liked, it still made more money than POTC 1.  Making almost $800 million is enough money to continue. They decided to cut the budget by $90 million dollar by keelhauling Johnny Depp n' replacing it with a female lead. The famous captain didn't really do much in the last movie other then be drunk n' cause much embarrassment to the East Indian Mouse Company.  

It is believed that the Redd the pirate who took over the controversial wench auction scene on the ride will be replacing Capt Jack Sparrow.  Rheet Reese n' Paul Wernick who wrote Deadpool will be tasked with writing the next script for the next POTC, but they have already jump ship. Emma Stone n' Jennifer Lawrence have been mentioned for the role.  It will be 2 to 5 year before we will see the next film in the series. There be more some talk of making it a TV series.

Redd is the only character from the POTC ride that be rooming the streets greeting fans n' providing photo opps. Disney has been slowly increasing the visibility of Redd with a merchandise line of t-shirts, pirate hats, wallet, back pack, pins, toy figure and mouse ears.  Remember that we be the original maker of thetreasure belt she wears, yarrr!

Jeff Patterson of Channel 8 drops by to interview Tiger Lee.  Discovers how this store came to be.  View interview here. View his transformation from landlubber into pirate captain.

This be Tiger Lee's fourth interview of the Gasparilla season, but his very first one inside the studio of CBS in St Petersburg, FL.  Watch the video here.We show cased the difference between authentic pirate garb and street pirate outfit.

Candice Aviles n' Sean Streicher from WTSP morning news casters come visiting fer Pirate Fashions ever popular pirate make over.  I think it be a right of passage fer all news personnel in Tampa to visit arrr fine store.  Ye can see their transformation below. Watch the interview here.

The sky be falling, as we be cursed with the installation in arrr new ceiling has been coming down.  So we be forced to move our entire showroom out and redo the installation to the ceiling so that we can have a cool place amidst the summer heat.  This be be the very first time we have closed on an entire weekend since we opened 9 years ago. So remember to take a brake the last week of July n' have some rum!