diff --git a/tailbone/forms/core.py b/tailbone/forms/core.py
index 2ecdbb5c..ceda975f 100644
--- a/tailbone/forms/core.py
+++ b/tailbone/forms/core.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ from webhelpers2.html import tags, HTML
 
 from tailbone.util import raw_datetime
 from . import types
-from .widgets import ReadonlyWidget, JQueryDateWidget, JQueryTimeWidget
+from .widgets import ReadonlyWidget, PlainDateWidget, JQueryDateWidget, JQueryTimeWidget
 
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -570,6 +570,8 @@ class Form(object):
             self.set_renderer(key, self.render_datetime)
         elif type_ == 'datetime_local':
             self.set_renderer(key, self.render_datetime_local)
+        elif type_ == 'date_plain':
+            self.set_widget(key, PlainDateWidget())
         elif type_ == 'date_jquery':
             # TODO: is this safe / a good idea?
             # self.set_node(key, colander.Date())
diff --git a/tailbone/forms/widgets.py b/tailbone/forms/widgets.py
index b90f9dda..ddb71b78 100644
--- a/tailbone/forms/widgets.py
+++ b/tailbone/forms/widgets.py
@@ -96,6 +96,10 @@ class JQuerySelectWidget(dfwidget.SelectWidget):
     template = 'select_jquery'
 
 
+class PlainDateWidget(dfwidget.DateInputWidget):
+    template = 'date_plain'
+
+
 class JQueryDateWidget(dfwidget.DateInputWidget):
     """
     Uses the jQuery datepicker UI widget, instead of whatever it is deform uses
diff --git a/tailbone/templates/deform/date_plain.pt b/tailbone/templates/deform/date_plain.pt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b473e422
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tailbone/templates/deform/date_plain.pt
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<div tal:define="css_class css_class|field.widget.css_class;
+                 oid oid|field.oid;
+                 style style|field.widget.style;
+                 type_name type_name|field.widget.type_name;"
+      tal:omit-tag="">
+  ${field.start_mapping()}
+  <input type="${type_name}"
+         name="date"
+         value="${cstruct}"
+
+         tal:attributes="class string: ${css_class or ''} form-control hasDatepicker;
+                         style style;
+                         attributes|field.widget.attributes|{};"
+         id="${oid}"/>
+  ${field.end_mapping()}
+</div>