Get Fancy Dressed for Festivals!

by: Keri Williams

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Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 Time: 11:42 AM - 0 comments

Festival Fever is hitting Britain! With California's Coachella Festival setting the tone and attracting the most stylish music fans from around the world, the festival arena has become one huge catwalk and the ultimate way to show off your fashion credentials and individuality whilst enjoying the festival vibe.

Fancy dress costumes and accessories are a key way for guys and girls to stand out from the crowd by adding some real creative flair and edge to their festival outfit with items that just can't be found on the high street.

Fancy Dress is becoming a very popular phenomena in the UK. The days of renting tired, poor quality costumes from a very limited range are long gone. The quality is now superb, the range of characters available are endless and the fancy dress accessories range provides eclectic and unusual items that will help give your outfit that elusive X factor. There's a sense of excitement at the prospect of dressing up and it breaks down social barriers. It's always a brilliant, fun filled night out.

So what trends can we expect to see this summer across Britain's festivals? Summer's hot catwalk trends must have been made with festivals in mind - casual, cool and festival ready and here are the top two trends to watch out for;

1. Glammed up Military influences with summer khaki as THE shade of the summer - could this be any more suited to a wild night dancing in a field? The reinvention of military is about adding a bit of grown up glamour, don't wear khaki head to toe, experiment with a scarf of a belt, make just one item military, like an army surplus jacket.

2. Next Generation Grunge 'New Grunge' as inspired by Pixie Geldof will see this year's festival goers in checked and tartan shirts, stripy tights, swinging tasselled bags and white hair streaked with pink. The secret formula to the New Grunge vibe, is mixing things up in surprising combinations.

So how can fancy dress accessories and costumes be integrated into festival goers outfits this summer? There are typically 3 key ways:

A range of quirky accessories can add a completely different angle, they're a bit off the wall and they're eye catching. Imagine neon feathered eyelashes, wacky jewellery, statement wigs - this is exactly what celebrities and musicians like Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Jaime Winstone use to create their x-factor look.

Secondly, festival goers often won't want to wear fancy dress from head to toe, so they will adopt elements of a particular costume to embellish their look, like the military... or punk, or 70s era laid-back style.

Lastly, for the more extrovert amongst us, there will be festival goers who will completely kit themselves out from head to toe in fancy dress to completely stand out from the crowd. Elvis or Michael Jackson impersonators are always popular, gangs of cave girls, 60s hippies, 80s rockers.

Bestival has a Fantasy fancy dress theme this year, so Bestival goers will be seeking inspiration for fantasy costumes galore! For many festivals across the UK, fancy dress has become an integral part of the weekend - often with the Saturday night totally dedicated to fancy dress. Seeing thousands of people all dressed up in fancy dress is a brilliant and hilarious experience.