Pirate Petee

Yes drinks all around.

Hey guys, guess what kinda boot I really like.

Oh yeah, the football boot.

Sorry, once again refer to the plunder boot topic for explination.

Them and the PUMAS. From Mexico

CARTER!!!!! You goin?

Good day lads and lassies, I am just hopping into this here conversation. I am a real Captain, a historian and a traditional sailor. Regarding bucket top boots.....They were worn by EVERY PYRATE!!...Why do I know this, because I have seen Capt. Blood, all the Earl Flynn movies and every pirate movie made in Hollywood. I have also seen Victorian paintings. Last but not least, I have been to numerous Ren Fairs were I have seen Pyrates in tricorns , percussion lock pistols,Victorian Dirks and Bucket Boots! I have also seen men in kilts wearing bucket boots. Therefore EVERY sottish pirate wore a kilt and bucket boots!

O.K. Back to reality. There are those who get there inspiration from Hollywood and the Victorians. Presenting logic and historical evidence will not change there mind.

Cheers from California

Ed

I like this post, thats what I'm going with from now on. My fiance says I can get a flintlock, a real one. Oh boy is the neighbor hood in trouble.

Hello Carter!

Ok, fishermen pirates, I'll be takin that tuna ARRRRRRR! Come on people move it to twill. Thats what I started it for. GO REDS!

Ok, the 19th Century officer boots, were very tight and form fitting. Different from the boots in question, or at least on the captain twill post. About boots, captain twill topic i mean. Foxe, ya forgot LIVERPOOL, when you walk through a storm hold your head up high, sorry I just got to represent me peeps, and I've been hitting the Boodingtons a bit much. Also a I just got done watching green street hooligans. I'm pissed. You should have seen this post with out all my corrections.

so Petee, I'm hoping to make a class or two on sunday. Is there a plan for all to meet up and go out afterwards? Ye know I miss yer hansome face....and Jess too of course.

Who else is plannin on goin this weekend?

We definatly have to.

Thanks for saving me hours, Patrick. Back to the bucket.

True, but pirates were sailors, among other things and sailors wore boots, thats not speculation. Why they wore them, thats speculative, well at least to me as I am not a sailor.

Now hold on... I can't let this pass. We have not determined that sailors "wore boots". We have yet to find any concrete evidence of sailors from the GAoP, let alone pirates wearing them.

I’m saying that they were fashionable in the sense that they existed and were around, not that they were fashionable in a sense of fashion. Other wise people would be posing in them all the time. I am stating that they were more of a work boot. Those pics on the last page were all of sailors, I’ll have more info about the Batavia boots hopefully Monday. Those pics back up the purposes of why a sailor would wear boots. I will agree that shoes were more common in a fashionable sense.

I couldn't agree more.

It pouring right now too. But they say its going to clear up by tomorrow.

True, but pirates were sailors, among other things and sailors wore boots, thats not speculation. Why they wore them, thats speculative, well at least to me as I am not a sailor. I have my reasons why they would wear them and I have my reasons why they woukld wear shoes as well.

ONE MORE DAY!

I'm sure they will put it out on DVD.

CAn you get Luan at a normal Harwear store?

Foxe-

Yes I agree with you, there is no proof for widespread evidence of boot wearing in the GAoP.

I don’t agree with you about Logic though, that’s to speculative, what is one persons Logic is not always the next. Everyone’s reality is relative.

Yes I agree with you that there is a huge amount of evidence of other footwear.

GOF-

I agree with you also, that the boot was a tool, a piece of gear. Also what you said about the weather, it being cold. That’s why, in my opinion, I would prefer to wear something tall and waterproof on my leg to keep them warm and dry. Loose enough, for mobility and have the same sole as a shoe to retain traction. As the pictures depicted.

On an individual persona level, boots could be very authentic, but going by pictures, as a group they could lower the level of authenticity as a whole.

I to have sent the pictures, to the curator of the museum from which they came.

Any one got any good ideas how I can make one of these.

You can make it a button fly and ad pockets.