Guild Wars 2

If I were to purchase the pirate costume through the gem store, would I be able to disable just the hat?

Yes, you can disable the headgear on any outfit

Yes, although this option will disable any headgear you’re wearing. Your options are the pirate hat or no hat at all.

Ah. So I could take off the hat and lose its appearance but also its benefits. I can’t just “hide” it… ?

The pirate costume is an outfit (what used to be town clothes) so it has no stats or other benefits, it’s just a different look.

The option to hide the hat works exactly the same as hiding your normal head gear. What I mean is that you can’t choose to hide the pirate hat and instead show your normal headgear.

For example before the wardrobe update I used to wear the pirate costume with the panda hat. Now the panda hat is an armor skin which means it goes into a different slot to the pirate costume, but if I’m wearing the pirate costume and check the box to hide the pirate hat it doesn’t display my panda hat instead. It just goes back to my characters ‘default’ hatless appearance.

Thanks. Your answers helped, as did the Wiki’s “Outfits” entry:

• Outfits are full-body costumes that hide currently equipped armor.
• Players can hide or show an outfit at any time in the Hero panel. This setting will remain set in any game area.
• Players can hide or show the helmet of their outfit at any time in the Hero panel by clicking the checkbox on the helmet while the outfit is toggled on
• Each outfit has up to four dye channels to customize colors uniformly across the entire outfit.

I was a bit confused, because there is still some holdover “town clothes” text scattered about on the Wiki.