Reasons to love: Festival fashion

After just returning from my personal favourite festival of the year (LEOPALLOOZA - a boutique festival, close to my home-town), I've been considering my love of 'festival fashion'. I think the main reason its so admired is the way it creates a whole unique style of its own by incorporating a broad range of peoples different approaches to current trends. I am pretty sure I've read that annual music festival Coachella has a lot of impact over the styles that will be available for months afterwards - high street and designer. 

Here are my reasons for being such a festivalfashionlovingfreak. 

1 - If your doing the festival thing properly and staying for a few days, you probably won't be able to wash. Bit of a strange reason without explaining myself, so that's what I'm going to do... (Explain myself). Basically no few day festival would be half as trendy without the three day mud build up on the Hunter wellington boots, random splashes of mud on waterproofs/skin/hair/clothing and (this is the best one) a wide array of gorgeous headbands cleverly used to decoy the look of greasy hair. 

2 - After about 5pm people are usually pretty drunk and care less about what they look like, which in turn makes them look cooler and more fashionable. 

3 - Whatever style you opt to incorporate into your festival outfits - it always looks relaxed and effortless. Particularly when in Great Britain as people will be wearing baggy clothes in the rain or baggy clothes in the shine... Clearly it wasn't just Madness who loved 'Baggy Trousers'.  

4 - There is no gender, age, race, size or shape discrimination when it comes to festival style. Anyone and everyone can do it and generally look cool! 

5 - ROCK vs POP. Some how the mix of leather, denim, studs, feathers, shorts, bikinis, army boots, wellies... (No this isn't fifty shades of grey)... The mix of pop and rock fashions mixed together work perfectly... In a way they have never worked together before!