Hi, I am trying to make a pirate character. I was hoping to get a look somewhat like that of the Thomas Tew concept art from Uncharted 4. (https://imgur.com/a/8EEXqo5)
My character is a female who commands a large fleet. She lives in a fictional world so I just kind of picked which look I liked most.
My questions are as follows:
On the Thomas Tew Concept Art (linked above):
What time period is this look based on?
Is this look accurate to English pirates at the time? If not, which parts are accurate and which aren't? From buttons, to pocket placement, to colors, everything you can think of. I'm an artist so i'll be drawing it myself.
If I were to further research the time period and clothing type, what should I search? Ex., something like "English Privateer 1695 clothing"?
For my character:
Is it far-fetched to have a woman wear those sorts of clothing, as a captain? If not, what did female captains wear at the time for English piracy?
First of all, your concept is entirely fictional, so there's no way to devise a historically accurate female pirate captain/admiral suit. I'm sorry! We could assume that a woman who made it to that position would likely wear men's clothing for both practical and psychological purposes, but in this hypothetical situation it would also be plausible to combine aspects of both men's and women's clothing.
Second, the concept art is perhaps vaguely based on the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century - I discuss certain tropes in modern representations of pirate clothing in this previous answer - but it is not accurate. Perhaps the biggest issue is the waistcoat, with a turn-down collar and a hip-length hem (I discuss waistcoats in more detail in that previous answer).
Third, googling is pretty much always a bad idea if you want to get more information on historical fashion. I would suggest The Cut of Men's Clothes by Norah Waugh for detailed information on men's fashion in the period (pirates didn't have their own trends).