Over the next few months, we'll be helping you fill your festival survival kit with all the style essentials needed for a weekend of fun, music and not being able to get phone reception. But it's also worth taking a look at some of the great outfits from festivals past. Read on for the ultimate rockstar's guide to looking suave and sophisticated amid the mud-splattered masses.
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How to maintain an air of angsty mystery while playing at noon to a crowd of semi-conscious and sunburnt cider victims? Big sunglasses, my friend, big sunglasses, as the Radiohead frontman shows.
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JC was officially crowned king of Glastonbury in 1995, after Pulp's barnstorming set as emergency stand-ins for the Stone Roses. Here he is, surveying his domain and mingling with his subjects, like a corduroy-clad colossus.
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Robbie may be off spotting UFOs in America, and Liam may now approach playing festivals with all the joie de vivre of an office worker tackling a Monday morning email backlog, but for a brief, glorious moment in 1995, the pair were united in celebration of mud, music and the credibility-bestowing power of the Adidas three-stripe.
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Sometimes, all it takes to make a great summer festival look is a really killer T-shirt, as the frontman of Blur ably demonstrated in the late 90s.
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Say what you like about old Pete, but this Glastonbury walkabout basically invented late-2000s festival style (with a little help from companion Kate Moss). Gone were the days of combat boots, rain ponchos and jester hats: from here on out it was all about skinny-jeaned (and short-shorted) rock 'n' roll finery with only Hunter wellies to spare your duds from the elements.
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It's always fun when a certain of vintage of pop star refuses to dress down for a festival appearance, teetering through the mud in their Vegas finery. Confusingly, Snoop Dogg/Lion actively dressed up for a recent Philadelphia festival appearance, ditching Long Beach casj for a preppy, collegiate vibe that was more lawns of Harvard than fields of beer and bad decisions.
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