SamRoc
People do bring their own pirate clothes to wear.

At dinner they do give you a red pirate scarf, lots of people who don't bring pirate clothes at least wear the scarves. At the deck party, everyone at least has the scarves on.
Our first pirate night we did not have clothes to dress up in

as the cruise was a last minute surprize

from my DH and I didnt have time to plan. So I grabbed our pirates of the carribbean T-shirts we bought at WDW a long time ago. This December we are going again and I will have a complete outfit.

Luckily for the budget, pirate clothes are not new looking so I can go to thrift shops to look for faded out clothes. Then I may sew a few pirate patches on them and make the edges ragged looking. At halloween you can often buy eye patches and bulky jewely that should help. At WDW they have pirate scarves with Mickey ears on them.

I may get some of those as we live close to WDW. Let your imagination run wild!!! More and more people are dressing up and that is what makes it so fun.

I heard many people last cruise who did not dress up say how next time they were going to dress up and really join in on the fun.
Hope you have a magical cruise.
mom x4,grandma x4