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Renaissance
Men’s Musketeer Swordsmen Costumes
Featuring musketeer, swordsmen, and cavalier Renaissance costumes for men. Additionaly, featuring Musketeer leather accessories and weapons to complete the look of the costumes.
Musketeer of the Guard
The French Renaissance Musketeer of the Guard began in 1622 in France as a military branch of the Royal Household, or Maison du Roi. Their name stemmed from the weapons they were outfitted with, namely the musket.
The Musketeers started out serving the lower noble families as protectors and fought their way up the ranks. Their high esprit de corps gained the Musketeers royal favor to later become the personal King’s Guards to King Louis XIII. The King’s guards within the royal residences were the Garde du Corps and the Gardes Suisse (Swiss Guard) had the primary duties of protecting the castle doors, gates and outer perimeters of the various royal palaces.
The Gardes Suisse Musketeers
The Gardes Suisse Musketeers were Swiss musketeer mercenaries hired to help guard the King of France. They served at the French court from 1490 to 1817. The Swiss had their own King’s Guard Musketeers, who were similar to the French. The Swiss crown was only too happy to rent out their musketeers to guard the French King. Additionally, they send their colorful Swiss pike soldiers to help fight French battles.
Guards of Cardinal Richelieu
Shortly after the first Musketeers began guarding the Kings household, there was a second group of swordsmen formed to report solely to Cardinal Richelieu. Cardinal Richelieu was appointed as King Louis XIII’s chief minister in 1624 and was a highly skilled politician. Without going into a long history lesson, let’s just say Richelieu was quite the colorful, underhanded, sly fox of a character who you either hated or loved. There was no in-between.
The Musketeers were constantly battling the crimson-clad Cardinal’s Guards with an on-going rivalry. The Musketeers were honorable and the Cardinal’s Guards, not so much.
Musketeers Code of Conduct
The Musketeers lived by a code of conduct similar to the knight’s code of conduct. They were known for having the finest qualities in all men; honor, loyalty, gallantry, bravery, and chivalry.
The most famous of historical Musketeers is probably the four (yes there were four) Musketeers from Alexandre Dumas’ novel, The Three Musketeers. The novel took place during the Renaissance Era of 17th-century France. Aramis, Athos, Porthos, and D’Artagnan, are the inseparable friends who live by the motto “Tous Pour un, un Pour Tous”, One for All and All for One.
Men’s Deluxe High-Quality Blue
Musketeer Costumes
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The King’s Guard Musketeers of the French Court wore blue and white or blue and silver uniforms. They were selected from the ranks of the king’s soldiers to serve as protectors to the king and his family. They acted as a combination of personal guard, secret service, and special forces. This was no small task as frequent plots and conspiracies were continuously in the making, during this time in French history.
Men’s Blue Musketeer Theatrical Costume
Available in 4 Colors
A musketeer costume created by Tabi’s Character Costumes, who is well known in the costume industry for their handmade in the USA, high-quality fabrics, deluxe costumes.
This costume is a blue velvet musketeer costume richly decorated with silver metallic trim, accented in the front with a large silver cross design, and lined with silver brocade fabric.
The costume is historically accurate, including the cross design on the front of the tabard, as you can see from the drawing (shown left) of a French King’s Guard Musketeer c. 1660.
Included is a matching pair of puffy blue velvet knee breeches with seam pockets. The hat, sword, boots, and hose are NOT included and will need to be purchased separately.
Black Suede Blue and Silver Banded Musketeer
Renaissance Hat
A perfect match for the Blue Musketeer Theatrical Costume featured above. It is made with a soft black suede fabric and decorated with a blue and silver embroidered band trim. I recommend adding ostrich feathers to decorate the hat. Click this link to see ostrich feathers in a variety of colors. I think I would add blue, white, and either black or gray plumes to my hat. Renaissance men loved extravagance!
A French Renaissance Musketeers of the Guard will need a pair of gaunlet gloves to wear with his Musketeer uniform. Blue or black leather are both appropriate accessories for the swordsmen. The gloves I am featuring here are genuine sheepskin leather. Sheepskin is usually a much softer, therefore more comfortable, leather than cow hide.
Men’s Deluxe Grand Heritage Blue Velvet
Musketeer Costume
This is a quality Renaissance Musketeer swordmen costume that will have you ready for Renaissance fairs, cosplay events, or Halloween parties. Included with this outfit is a blue velvet tunic with an attached red satin lined cape ,all trmmed in silver; a matching blue velvet hat also accented with silver trim; a pair of blue baggy swordsmen pants; and black vintl boot tops.
As you probably know by now, if you have been following the costumes on this site at all, I am NOT a big fan of boot tops. I think they cheapen the look of the costume making the costume look cheesy. Personally, I think they are cheap and tacky looking. Instead, I recommend wearing a pair of real thigh-high boots that fold over at the knee as an alternative.
Where Do I Find Musketeer Boots?
Find cool looking boots by clicking on this page link, or this one here.
If you are planning on using the costume for just a one time Halloween party, the boot covers may work for you. But if you are planning to use the costume for a Renaissance Fair, a cosplay event, an RPG or an LARP event, then I would highly recommend wearing a real pair of boots.
Men’s Renaissance Musketeer
Blue Sleeveless Tabard Jerkin
A historically correct rich blue cotton velvet Musketeer tabard costume perfect to wear to reenactments, LARP, RPG, cosplay, or theater events. It can be worn in October again as a Halloween costume too. The tabard is lined with blue satin and the front and sides are embellished with a hand embroidered silver cross and fleur-de-lis of the Musketeers The tabard is trimmed with stunning decorative silver trim. Accessories are not included with this tabard and must be purchased separately. Check out a fabulous pair of dueling breeches featured below to wear with this tabard.
Wear this cavalier swordsmen hat with the blue musketeer tabard featured above. Unfortunately, the blue ostrich plumes are not included and will have be purchased separately. The good thing is you can purchase feathers in any color you like to match the costume of your choice. This versatile hat can be worn with many different period costumes.
Men’s Deluxe High-Quality Black
Musketeer Costumes
The Black Muskateers were the guards of the papal court in 1688 and called so because of the black horses they rode and not just the black tabards. They served the cardinal’s of the Roman Catholic church in France.
The creation of this black French Musketeer tabard was influenced by Alexandre Dumas’ book, “The Man in the Iron Mask”. If you haven’t read the book, it is an excellent read. Additionally, several really good movies have also been produced.
This musketeer tabard is made of luxurious black cotton velvet trimmed with silver satin. It is lined with a deep gold rayon lining. Crosses surrounded with fleur-de-lis are embroidered on the front panel and the sleeve panels. It is a high-quality tabard perfect for a King’s Guard.
Only the tabard is included. All other costume items in the photo must be purchased separately.
Men’s Black Musketeer Theatrical Costume
Available in 4 Colors
An historically accurate papal Musketeer costume. It is black cotton velvet ornately decorated with silver metallic trim It is embellished in the front with a large silver cross design, and it is lined with silver brocade fabric.
Included is a matching pair of puffy black velvet knee-breeches with seam pockets. The hat, sword, boots, and hosiery are NOT included and will need to be purchased separately.
Men’s Deluxe High-Quality Red
Musketeer Costumes
The first red Muskeeter uniforms belonged on the papal guardsmen of Cardinal Richelieu when he was appointed Chief Minister to King Louis XIII in 1624. Cardinal Richelieu preferred the color red as the essential color of his guards; red being the color only allowed to be worn by the monarchy and the papistry, according to the French Sumptuary Laws of the day, henceforth, a subtlely bold way of saying the papistry ranked higher above the blue of the King’s guard. Swiss Musketeers also wore red uniforms.
Men’s Cardinal Richelieu’s Guard Red Velvet Tabard
Replicated from the elite French papal guards of Cardinal Richelieu, this Musketeer tabard is a rich, heavy, blood red cotton velvet with an antique gold rayon lining. It is embroidered with crosses and with fleur-de-lis are on both the chest and sleeves of the garment. No other pieces are included with this tabard. A matching Renaissance black suede musketeer hat with red and gold embroidered trim is featured directly below.
Black Suede Red and Gold Banded Musketeer
Renaissance Hat
A perfect match for the Cardinal Richelieu’s Guard Red Velvet Tabard featured above. It is made with a soft black suede fabric and decorated with an embroidered red and gold trim. The red and black feathers in the photo are not included. Click this link to see ostrich feathers in a variety of colors. I think I would add red, black, and gold plumes to my hat.
Men’s Deluxe Musketeer Theatrical Quality Costume
Available in 4 Colors
The scarlet Musketeer cassock uniform was adopted in 1677. This scarlet Muskateer uniform costume is a rich red velvet, lined with silver satin, accented with a silver and gold cross applique, trimmed with silver metallic braid, and gold metal buttons. Included with the costume are matching red velvet knee breeches with seam pockets. The hat, hose, shoes and sword are not included, but may be purchased separately.
I recommend wearing a cavalier hat with this costume. The tri-corner hat doesn’t seem as well suited with a cavalier outfit. I think a tri-corner hat is better suited to wear with an American colonial costume or a pirate costume.
A luxury cotton velvet scarlet tabard, fully lined with matching red satin. The front of the tunic is embellished with a gold satin fleur-de-Lis cross and is edged with gold trim. I recommend wearing the tabard with a pair of black swordsmen breeches, a pair of thigh-high boots in black or brown, and a fancy white Renaissance shirt underneath. I would add a cavalier hat, a rapier, a small swordsmen dagger, along with a leather belt and baltric to complete the costume.
Although each country had their own musketeer swordsmen fighting their causes, each country also had different fashion styles for their swordsmen. Most people are more familiar with the French Musketeers who wore the blue cloak-like cassocks, lined with red and edged with silver embroidery. These were later replaced with the smaller soubrevestes or sleeveless coats bearing the silver Fleur-de-Lis cross on the front of the garment. These tunics have become the most popular with today’s costumers designing French Musketeer costumes.
In this image to the right is an Italian Cavalier who, as you can see, is dressed altogether different than a French Musketeer. This Italian swordsman is wearing a doublet over a billowy shirt with paned sleeves, black hose (tights) and thigh-high boots.
His sword would be carried in a leather sheath attached to his leather belt with a very long tongue and on his head is a cavalier hat with a large plume feather. It is an easy costume to put together yourself. I would add a short cape or a long cloak to complete the costume.
A Switzerland Pike Soldier’s Uniform set has everything you need for a complete historically accurate costume except for the weapons. You do, however, get the complete costume set and can choose the weapons you want to use for accessory props. Included with the costume is the beret hat, the high-collar white under shirt, the uniform coat, the matching uniform pants, plus the matching boot covers and faux leather belt.
The Musketeers BBC TV Series (2014 – 2017)
Costume Designs & Accessories Video
The Musketeers Men’s Leather Costume
Accessories
The latest Musketeer film series has inspired a new popularity in dressing like a Musketeer for costume events and is especially popular for Halloween and cosplay costumes. Here we a few leather accessories to get you started on putting together a Musketeer costume. Thus you too can play a swashbuckling, sword wielding, One for All and All for One King’s Musketeer guard. Dress for a cosplay event with an outfit similar to the guards in The Musketeers.
Wear this vest when playing the part of D’Artagnan. Wear it over a black shirt and a Medieval gambeson with gauntlet gloves and arm guards on the forearms.
The vest is made with Asian sizing. I recommend ordering a size larger than you usually wear.
This one-should swordsmen cape has a black leather shoulder mantle. The cape itself is black suede with blue satin lining. Included are the metal fittings and wool ropes which attach to suede straps towhic make it easy to tie and secure the mantle.
Men’s Renaissance Cavalier Brown Leather Shoulder Cape
The perfect accessory for any Renaissance swordsmen. The shoulder guard is real leather with metal fittings and a matching wool cape is attached to suede straps for tying. The outside of the cape is brown ultra-suede with a rich antique gold satin lining. You also have a choice of a black leather shoulder guard with a dark blue satin lining.
Genuine high-quality leather baldric sword hangar belts will add to the authenticity of the Musketeer costumes. You will need a leather baldric hangar for a variety of different period costumes. Wear them in theater productions, LARP, RPG, comic-con, and other cosplay events.
Aramis wears a gray leather costume in The MusketeersBBC series. This pair of gray sheep skin leather gauntlet gloves are a great costume asset. It’s the perfect accessory addition to a gray leather Aramis costume.
You couldn’t ask for a better pair of leather costume gauntlet gloves at such a reasonable price. They are all genuine leather, but they are unlined which is probably why they are so reasonable. The plus to being manufactured unlined is they won’t be as hot when wearing them during the summer in blazing heat at a Renaisance Faire.
Musketeer Separate Shirts & Pants
Separate musketeer pants and shirt pieces for you to create your own style of musketeer outfit. They are pieces swordsmen may have worn during the Medieval and Renaissance eras.
Renaissance era swordsmen cavalier shirts with full sleeves and fitted cuffs. The collared shirts lace up the chest to the neck. Gathered at the yoke giving ample room to move about with lots of fabric. Beautifully made, high-quality costume shirts perfect to wear with Renaissance breeches in a fencing duel.
Two tops for the price of one with this Renaissance men’s tunic set. The under-tunic is a soft green velvet and the outer-tunic is faux leather with a faux-leather belt. This is a great look for a D’ Artagnan costume. Wear it with a pair of men’s black tight fitting leather pants.
In the BBC TV series,The Musketeers, Athos was the only Musketeer who worn puffy fabric pants like the pair featured here. The other Musketeers, Aramis and Porthos, wore puffy leather pants. D’ Artagnan, is the only one who wore fitted leather pants. I would pair these breeches with a black leather doublet jacket for an excellent Athos costume. They can also be paired with one of the blue or red Musketeer tabards featured above.
In The MusketeersBBC series, it’s all about the hats worn by the Musketeers. Each Musketeer has a hat matching the character of the person wearing it. All except D’ Artagnan, who as a novice, young knave aspiring to become a Muskateer, doesn’t have a hat at all.
Athos wears a brown hat with a slightly turned up brim and small feathers (shown above) tucked into the hatband. It is difficult to tell if the hat is made out of leather or wool felt and I couldn’t find any information about the making of their hats on the Internet. I think they are probably leather, but like I said it’s hard to tell.
The hats I selected for Athos are both high-quality hats. They can be shaped into the style you want to play the Athos musketeer character. They are both really really excellent hats! One is made in America of leather, and the other is made in America of wool. Either one will make an excellent accessory to complete your Athos costume. I recommend changing the hatband, tucking in a few black feathers, and shaping the hat to turn up slightly on the left side.
I couldn’t find a gray leather hat for Aramis, but I don’t think he is wearing a leather hat anyway. In all of the photos I looked at, it appears to be a gray wool felt hat with a brown band.
I did find a bunch of wool hats in gray and narrowed them down to these two (shown above). If you do choose to wear one of them as Aramis, remember to change the hatband.
Two black leather and one wool wide brim hats for Porthos character. In the series, Porthos hat is the most extragant of all the Musketeers. His hat is a large wide brim leather hat pinned up on the side with a fluer-de-lis pin accessorizing the hat. Anyone of these hats will work well for the Porthos costume.
Men’s Musketeer Musket & Pistol Weapons
The reason for the name Musketeers is because of the musket weapons used by the King’s guards at the time. Muskets came into use in the early 1600s from Suhl, Germany right about the time Cardinal Richelieu was appointed Chief Minister to King Louis XIII.
They were brought to France by the Swiss mercenaries and the Musketeers armed themselves with….well, muskets. Imagine that. They armed themselves with muskets, blunderbusses, swords, and naturally…. knives. I mean after all, what well-serving guard wouldn’t carry a concealed knife or two or three?
This video shows the types of weapons using in the filming of the popular BBC series. Starting at 2:35 on this video are the secrets to the types of weapons used during the filming of the live-action film series. Fast forward to that time if you don’t want to waste your time on women’s costume dialogue.
I wasn’t able to locate any 17th-century musket blunderbuss replicas, but these replicated flintlock pirate blunderbuss muskets from the 1800s aren’t much different from a 17th-century blunderbuss. BTW – The reason for the left handed pistol was not to accommodated left handed men. They were made to hold with the left hand, fill with powder and ball with the right hand, then fire while wielding a sword with the right hand.
French Colonial 1807 Engraved Flintlock Musket Replicas
These musket style rifle replicas are similar to the muskets which were used by the Musketeers in the late 1700s. Unless you are performing in a historically accurate reenactment event, they will work nicely for a musketeer cosplay costume.
Musketeer Sword Replicas
Featured next are real musketeer swords. What I mean by “real” is they are swords that will cut. They are not toys for children’s play. Their replications have been inspired by authentic weapons of the past. Again, these swords are not children’s toys nor are they costume props. They are swords that can cause bodily harm and damage if not used responsibly. Only use them for cosplay costume props with care.
Adult French Musketeer Rapier Carbon Steel Fencing Sword
An authentic reproduction of a gilded French Musketeer Company Cavalry Sword. The sword features an intricately detailed French designed hand guard and pommel with a mirror finished blade. Included is a highly polished metal scabbard.
An elegant Spanish Musketeer rapier style sword featuring a two-toned, black and burgundy, leather grip. It is completed with an ornate nickel hilt and protected by a guard intricately designed with a Spanish crest. The gleaming stainless steel blade is 45″ long and has been highly polished.
The sword is for DECORATION, DISPLAY and PROP PURPOSES ONLY. It is NOT a toy and it is NOT meant to be used in a reenactment sword fight. It will make an excellent Muskateer cosplay costume prop!
I hope you have lots and lots of fun at your next costume event wearing one of these men’s Musketeer costumes. Keep in mind, there are only three really important things to remember when searching for the right Musketeer Costume and Accessories…. .Keep It Frosty, Have Fun, and Enjoy the Hunt!
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Although each country had their own musketeer swordsmen fighting their causes, each country also had different fashion styles for their swordsmen. Most people are more familiar with the French Musketeers who wore the blue cloak-like cassocks, lined with red and edged with silver embroidery. These were later replaced with the smaller soubrevestes or sleeveless coats bearing the silver Fleur-de-Lis cross on the front of the garment. These tunics have become the most popular with today’s costumers designing French Musketeer costumes.
