Halloween is almost here again and there are bound to be plenty of fancy dress parties going on. It is the most popular time of year to get dressed up in some strange outfit and to make a fool of yourself. When it comes down to what you are going to wear there are all kinds of possibilities. A lot of people tend to stick to the Halloween theme and go as Dracula, The Mummy, Frankenstein or The Wolfman. Sticking to the traditional spooky image of Halloween is all well and good, but there are a lot of alternatives to consider as well...

Pirate costumes are becoming very popular for fancy dress parties. They have always featured in the selections of outfits in fancy dress shops but they are now being worn by a lot more partygoers. A lot of this is down to the enormous success of the Johnny Depp movies. Mr. Depp and his crewmates have managed to make pirate costumes look like incredibly cool things to wear.

Of course, there have always been movies about buccaneers; when Disney created its 'Caribbean' franchise it had not really come up with anything new. The main reason that they have been so amazingly successful is because they tap into a wonderful type of adventure story that had been largely forgotten about. Cinema has always had its antiheroes in pirate costumes, but there had not been any really good ones for quite a number of years.

Bearing this in mind, now is a great time to go to a party dressed up as one of the great 'bad boys' of old. Pirate costumes are guaranteed to be a great choice for a fancy dress event because so many people are familiar with the Johnny Depp films.

When it comes to you shopping for a buccaneer outfit, you are definitely not going to have any difficulty in finding one. Whether you are going to fancy dress outlets on the high street or looking at suppliers on the internet, you will see that hundreds of designs are available. Pirate costumes are a permanent part of the selection in fancy dress attire.

You are bound to come across the traditional style of buccaneer; complete with hat, eye patch and parrot, but it does not stop there. Pirate costumes will come in all kinds of styles and varieties; don't just rush into buying the first half-decent one that you find because you want to make sure that you get the one that is best for you. It is also inevitable that you will come across one that is modelled directly on what Johnny Depp wore for his films.

So you see, when it comes to getting yourself a really good outfit for a Halloween fancy dress party you are not as limited as you might think. Just because it is 'that time of year' it does not mean that you have to dress up as a spook or one of the shambling dead. There really are all kinds of other possibilities.