It’s written that the “show’s the thing” but so is showing up looking like part of the show. You know that’s half the reason people love music festivals. It’s as much live theater as it is live music!
With the season of festing rapidly approaching, it’s time to start thinking about what you’re going to wear. So, let’s look at 5 show-stopping outfits to wear to the music festivals in your immediate future.
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Wear It On Your Sleeve
Eco-consciousness is driving much of the fashion world’s behavior at present. Fashion brands are rapidly reforming their practices because the consumer demands it. But change takes time, so it’s down to you to give things a push this festival season!
If there’s one steadfast rule of festivals, it’s that you need a truly great bag. So, why shouldn’t your bag be both trendy and the messenger of a greener fashion world? Vegan luxury purses that are beautiful, highly functional, and ethical are the silent messengers of tomorrow. Why would any festival goer be without one? Wear your eco-conscious bag in animal-friendly straw, vegan leather, or recycled nylon and build your festival looks around it.
This is one festival fashion accessory that serves your style agenda on multiple levels. Anything that animal-derived materials can do, eco-friendly, vegan materials can do better. Make sustainability the theme for whatever outfit you’re planning to wear, and it’s a festing revolution. If it’s recycled, reused, or repurposed, you’re on it!
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A Cinch In Time
A key trend for summer 2024 is the cinched waist. A highly defined waistline is expressed in rich leather, embellished in almost equestrian themes with a variety of stitching, hardware, and straps. To create an outfit based on this strong trend for the 2024 summer season, understand that corset belts add a fashion-forward edge to any outfit you choose to wear. Consider, for a moment, amped-up boho.
Amped-up boho is the same impulse we’ve always known, from the Belle Epoque’s literary escapist bohemians to today’s fashion flag bearers. But with the addition of a corset belt, boho takes on a sharp (even dark) edge. Add matte leather cowboy boots and a matching hat. Now, you’ve taken boho in the fest direction—out on the fringe. Because when you take basic shapes and add new textures, you’ve broken a rule. And it’s in the broken rules that the cinched waist has its best moments. Tell your story in a tiered denim skirt and a sheer blouse, for a dark, daring Western edge. Extra points for a corset belt embellished with knee-length fringe over booty shorts.
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Sing a Siren Song
In case you haven’t heard, 2024 is the year of siren red. While the rest of the year’s color palette is somewhat muted in response to some tense global realities, red bursts through the somber hues of 2024 to assert itself with vibrant brio. And it’s not alone. There is no little resistance to muted palettes as optimism demands a hearing.
What more natural companion could there be for music festivals than a vibrant burst of red, demanding center stage? Red is the color of passion, fire, and emergencies—and you’re as urgent as any emergency in siren red. This season’s scandalously brief shorts in red patent leatherette set the tone for the coming conflagration. Dress your head in red tulle, a la Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait as a Tehuana. Adorn yourself as the siren you are in a voluminous, floor-length silk opera coat. Sing a siren song without opening your mouth in the color that’s already setting 2024 on fire. Expect the festing season to be awash in women’s festival outfits in precisely this color. Flame on!
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Sheer, Ethereal White
Bring your best Baptist Revival river baptism to the festival and get ready to sing, sing, sing. This year’s sheer, ethereal whites recall innocence lost to the rude glare of modernism. You can practically smell the fresh-pressed linen in every breath of gauzy fabric.
Layers of gentle gauze can create the look you seek, your way. Be the forest sprite, your iridescent wings glistening in the light of a thousand lasers! Or, do a reverse Steve Nicks, pairing hippie gauze and lace with a black leather jacket, top hat, and combat boots. Over-the-knee striped socks in yellow and black add whimsy as Rhiannon is reborn! Or, try a gauzy romper, cut as high as you like, answering the ultra-short shorts trend in delicate textures. Then, throw a crocheted poncho over it, paired with Birkenstocks and socks.
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Ice, Ice Baby
If siren red’s not really you, and you’re a little worried about what’s going to happen to an all-white look at a festival, have no fear. Ice blue everything and then some is happening this year. This tasty pastel is a patch of summer sky seen through the leaves of a tree on the fest’s fringes.
You might wear ice blue with holographic leggings or a feathered jacket, a motorcycle cap studded with ice blue rhinestones, or a vegan leather belt bag. However you choose to wear it, remember that this rarefied color is probably going to be worn by many at this year’s festivals so put your spin on it. Try wearing it as a hooded bodysuit with mixed metallic contrasts. Throw on a chain belt in gold and silver, fitted with medallions. Pair the look with a metallic, pleather vest and huge gold reflective shades. Finish your look with vintage silver platforms.
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Whatever outfits you’ve got lined up for the 2024 festival season, keeping an eye on the promptings of fashion gives you an edge. Take the excitement of festival fashion and elevate it to the level of personal style as only you can, adding the edge of contemporary trends!