Vixen Pirate Wench Costume

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Our Vixen Pirate Wench could hornswaggle gold from Captain Hook himself just by walking across the deck.

Vixen Pirate Wench costume includes double lace up velvet corset dress with full sleeves and red bow detail.

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Vixen Pirate Wench Costume
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The Vixen Pirate Wench's outfit is perfect for any number of occasions when you want to be noticed. Halloween, Valentines Day and costume parties are just a start.

Once you wear this costume, you'll find it quite easy to slip into character of the vixen pirate lady - an attractive wench no pirate can ignore.

 

Women Were Famous Pirates

May 12, 1912 by Staff Writer

Mary Read and Anne Bonny Flew The Jolly Roger for Years

Long before ever the suffarage was an issue in England. in a time when women for the most part spent their lives by their own hearthstones there flourished two women pirates. British born Real buccaneers they were, who swaggered and swore right lastily and sailed the Spanish Main and slew folks with broad cutlasses and did all the other things that well-regulated pirates were In the habit of doing Their names were Mary Read and Anne Bonny, and their records are still to be read in certain ancient British court records, though they seldom are.

Mary was one of those strange women who have gone through life dressed as men She kept her secret from all except a very few Before she was 18 she enlisted as a sailor in the British navy, and a history of pirates published In London In 1724 by Captain Charles Johnson tells all about her. She did well enough se a sailor, then enlisted in the army and went with a British regiment to Flanders, where she fought through a number of campaigns and was distinguished for reckless bravery and helped keep up the reputation for profanity which goes with soldiers In Flanders. She called herself Frank Read and apparently no one suspected that sho was a girl.

But, being a Woman, she could not refrain from faling In love, and finally was married to It fellow soldier of whom she had grown very fond. Then they both left the army, bought a little Inn in Flanders and settled down to housekeeping All this seems a long way from piracy --but do not be impatient.

Mary's husband died in a year or two and she went back to her wild, masculine life. shipping as a sailor on a Dutch merchantman bound for the West Indies Before the vessel reached its destination it wes halted, by British pirates, who, being in need of a sailor, took the lusty Mary never suspecting that the recruit to their crew was a woman

Mary pirated for a little while with the boys, and then the ship put in at New Providence, one of the Bahama Islands, and took advantage of a general pardon offered to every British pirate except Captain Kidd and Captain Avery. They all promised to be good, the crew disbanded, and there was Mary out of a Job again

Now, the British Governor of New Providence was fitting out a privateerman at that time to harry Spanish coinmerce PrivateerIng, by the way was the respectable and legal way of being and was countenanced becausc the owner of a drivateer had to divide his Ste with the Government.

Our Mary became a member of the crew of this British privateereman. and incidentally. It was a very tough crew she Joined One members of it was a pirate named Rackam Another was hie wife, Anne Bonny, a buxom wench, who, Iike Mary, was disguised as a man Anne was the real tough kiddo. Captain Johnson tells us, while Mary was Just an honest working girl whom cruel fate had made a pirate quite against her wilt

However. Mary does not item to have put up any very violent Struggle against cruel fate

However that was, the rough and ready Anne Bonny fell in love with Mary, who. she fancied was a man of course. Mary had to explain and then Anne explained and they grew very chummy, and being women couldn't resist embracing each other frequently so that Rackam Anne's husband grew very jealous of the supposed Frank and had to be let in on the secret for fear he would sneak up on Mary arid Insert a dirk between her shoulders.

The bold Rackam couldn't bear the thought of being a subordinate and dividing up the spoils of war with the Government, so he led a mutiny, soon toned the Officers of the ship overboard and moved his belongings up to the Captain's cabin.

It is not known whether he hoisted the Jolly Roger at the masthead, but probably he did, and if he didn't he should have Anyhow, they went plundering merrily over the southern seas, although they do not seem to have been as had as some members of the profession. Generally the crew of a merchant ship was allowed to go Its way after everything or value had been carried off necessarily.

Mmen were killed occasionally, but wholesale plank walking was net a feature of this cruise. Maybe it was the refining Influence of having two pirates or the gentler sex aboard, but the chances are It wasn't in the first place there was nothing very gentle about Mary and Anne, and in the second Place, few teemberg of the crew knew they were women. They brandished cutlasses and pistols. and what they lacked In whiskers they made up for in ferocity.

And just at this stage of the game, that soft-hearted Mary fell In love again A young artist had been captured from a British ship—Beckett had art idea that he might be useful In sketching scenes and drawing charts Pirates, you know, were great at chart making -- drawing mysterious maps showing location of 'buried treasure, with explanations cipher that it takes a Sanskrit dictionary and an X-ray machine to make clear.

Mary and the artist became good friends long before the artist suspected that she was anything but a slender and more than unusually handsome bov. At night when other members of the crew were drunk or sleeping. these two would eat together in a sheltered corner of the deck, and Mary would lean back with her heal in the artist's lap and listen to him tell the story of his life and his ambitions The artist seems never to have suspected his comrade was a girl so at last Mary told him and they were married -- Informally, It is true and without priest. or license Pirate ships do not carry chaplains, although license is plentiful enough aboard them.

After the marriage the cruise went on for months, and once Mary saved her husband's life when he had been challenged to a duel by one of the ruffians of the crew Mary succeeded in quarreing with this man and fought him a duel herself before her husband had an opportunity to risk his life The girl pirate- still known ate Frank to her shipmates—went ashore on a little Island, and the pirate with her Both drew the r pistols and fired, but neither was seriously wounded Then they attacked each other with broadswords, and after a few minutes' fierce clashing Mary stabbed her enemy through the body and killed him Then she wiped her sword en the grass and went back aboard ship and nobody thought anything of it

But it was not long after the duel that the pirate slap was overtaken by a British frigate A short fight followed, the pirates serving their stubby cannon until a storm of grapeshot drove them from the deck Every one rushed to the hold except Mary Read and the redoubtable Anne Bonny, who continued to load and fire the cannons Anne in rage rushed to the cempaionway of the ship and roared down to the men below to come up and fight, and when they refused jerked a great pistol from her belt and fired into the huddling, cursing mass. killing one and wounding several others But it was of no avail, and in a little while the crew of the man-of-war came tumbling and cheering over the side of the pirate ship and cverwhelmed Its cowering defenders.

All the pirates, including Anne and Mary, were put in irons and carried back to England The artist was allowed to go free. as it wee easily proved that he wan a member of the band against his will but his pirate wife was tried and sentenced to the gallows. As she was expecting soon to become a mother, a reprieve wee granted 'her, and before It expired she fell ill of a fever and died Rackham, leader of the band, was hanged, but Anne his roistering wife was reprieved from time to time and finally allowed to go free