It’s all part of the business.
And what a fashionable life it is. Would merchant ship captains surrender so quickly to buccaneers in jean jackets and Converse sneakers?. The collar attaches with a hook and loop fastener, and the wrist cuffs have sewn-in elastic so that they don’t fall off when you’re boarding a merchant ship. Sometimes it’s tough finding a tailor to threaten at cutlass-point until he rustles up a decent thieving outfit.