Whilst I was in my Internet black hole I was lucky enough to get to enjoy the T in the Park music festival here in Scotland. Now I love a good weekend of listening to great music and drinking beer but while I was there I got to thinking about what its really like to dress for a British festival. Before you go to any event like this you are bombarded with images of celeb's looking great whatever the weather, all the magazines are telling you what the best festival look is and all your friends are talking about what they are going to wear.
Well I feel that the reality is much different especially if your camping. You end up wearing all your old clothes because you don't want ruin all your good ones, and you put on so many layers to prepare yourself for any weather eventuality. By the time the last day of the festival has come you haven't showered for a few days and your happy to put on about anything that will keep you warm and dry!
Lucky for me then that I wasn't camping this year so I thought I'd be able to up the fashion stakes. On day one I wore some hot pants with thick tights, old cowboy boots and my leather jacket. Brilliant I thought, if it got muddy my boots would be great and if it rained my jacket should keep me dry. All went well until we had to que for the bus to get home and it was so cold I regretted wearing the hot pants.
Day two and I decided to learn from my mistake and wear my skinny jeans instead on my hot pants and I put a hoodie on under my leather jacket. Again everything was perfect until the end of the night when the crowd at the last band decided to soak us with beer, making my beautiful leather jacket all sticky and leaving marks on it where it had ran down my back.
I guess what I have to learn from this is to only wear old clothes to a festival because I don't have the cash to buy a new one should it get wrecked, unlike all the celeb's in their designer gear. I'm in the process of trying to clean my leather jacket and I'm sure it will be just fine, if it isn't I will just have to think the beer has given it some character.