Lady Pirate Costume

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Get ready to rock the boat and make some waves. Pirate Lady costume includes satin and panne dress trimmed with lace, lace-up gold trimmed corset, striped waist sash and bandana. One size fits ladies 12-16. Pantyhose and boots available for separate purchase.

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Two Women Denied Their Sex and Became Pirates

June 1, 1919 by Staff Writer

Women have succeeded in passing themselves off as men not infrequently, but, so far as is known, there have been but two women pirates -- Anne Bonney and Mary Read, who were captured something over a century ago in the Caribbean sea, charged with "having piratical intentions." The woman Bonney was the daughter of a Carolina planter, who had disowned her by reason of her marriage to a sailor. Even at that time Anne had a predilection for man's attire, inasmuch as at the hour of her elopement she employed it for the purpose of evading her angry parent. Eventually she shipped with her husband and shared in his piratical adventures.

Among her shipmates, who were ignorant of her sex and also of her relation to the captain, Anne attained a reputation for courage. Now, curious as it may seem, the ship wherein this female pirate practiced the arts of the freebooter was one day boarded by several strangers, among them another lady pirate of the name of Mary Read. It followed that the women became fast friends, though at first each was ignorant of the sex of the other. The discovery that each was a woman came about through the declaration on the part of Mary of a romantic attachment for the Bonney person.

The circumstances attending the early career of Mary Read were somewhat curious. She had been raised as a boy, made to wear boy's clothing, and, indeed, regarded on every hand as a real boy. Mary, on attaining the age of 19, became in turn a sailor, a soldier and in the end the wife of a pirate, just as had Anne Bonney. When the regiment to which she and her pirate-to-be husband belonged at the time discovered Mary’s real sex, a wedding was celebrated and for a while, the two kept a hostelry known as "The Three Horseshoes."

Shortly after the two women met they became widows, and naturally enough cast their lots together in a buccaneer crew. Both were admired for the courage they evinced in their unusual calling and both were greatly loved by their seamen. Mary Read was an expert swordswoman and fought more than one duel. She died in prison. Annie Bonney was restored to her family.