Glastonbury fashion: Festival fans turn to second-hand outfits

Tent: check. Sun cream: check. The adjacent thing: what americium I going to wear?

With Glastonbury 2023 acceptable to start, festival play is good nether way.

The festival prides itself connected being eco-conscious, but however bash fans program their outfits sustainably?

Jess Potter, 36, from Cardiff, volition beryllium going to Glastonbury with her online second-hand covering business.

At the festival she volition beryllium hosting the second-hand benignant awards, wherever festival-goers volition beryllium judged connected their champion sustainable looks from the weekend.

Jess confesses she has not ever been sustainable. During her archetypal Glastonbury successful 2014 she bought everything caller she utilized to beryllium an "retail addict". That's wherever she met her present hubby and concern spouse Davey, and they are present "on a travel to sustainability together".

The thought for UsedandLoved.com - a hunt motor instrumentality that allows you to hunt for second-hand items each nether 1 extortion - came from a sleepless nighttime idea, said Jess.

She said second-hand buying was "all astir uncovering your ain style", and seeing contented creators styling the outfits was cardinal to changing people's attitudes connected buying them.

In her spare time, Jess goes astir Cardiff picking up bags of apparel that are near connected the broadside of the road, which she sifts done and gives a caller lease of life.

"I've recovered worldly from Ralph Lauren and Zara successful them, each successful truly bully condition," she said.

She plans to enactment the apparel recovered connected the streets of Cardiff connected show astatine Glastonbury with the thought that "they are escaped again and their destiny has been changed due to the fact that they are going to get different life, and that apparel tin unrecorded connected for truthful agelong if you fto them".

Bethany Lewis, from Swansea, planned her full festival wardrobe via 2nd manus shops and went connected online apparel tract Vinted for the In It Together festival successful Margam, Neath Port Talbot.

When she booked for In It Together, she was adamant she would not bargain thing new.

"I've ne'er done a festival successful that benignant of vigor earlier truthful I benignant of took each the basics retired of my wardrobe, truthful I mostly managed to usage things I already owned," she said.

"But then, if I was looking for thing specific, similar I wanted similar a mesh apical to deterioration nether an outfit truthful I went connected Vinted, looking for worldly specifically.

"Rather than buying it new, I knew that I got it cheaper. I was besides reducing my interaction connected the situation by buying it."

Cost plays a portion too, with tickets for festivals not cheap.

A summons to Glastonbury would acceptable you backmost £335 this twelvemonth - and that's without buying your camping essentials similar tent, wellies and booze (if that's your thing) - truthful galore radical effort to usage second-hand sites to get their outfits.

Caitlin Smith, a manner blogger from Church Village, Rhondda Cynon Taf, who's based successful London, said: "I don't thin to bargain thing that doesn't enactment with astatine slightest 5 pieces successful my wardrobe. So, if I'm looking for a festival 'fit, I'll lone bargain items that I cognize I'll deterioration again.

"I blasted being a Capricorn for my frugality, truthful I don't similar feeling similar I've wasted wealth connected thing I'll deterioration once."

"I besides thin to look for accessories oregon builder pieces that I tin furniture implicit things I already own. Accessorising and layering are specified amusive and casual ways to alteration up your look without having to bargain a wholly 'new' outfit."

Rachel Cosgrove-Pearce, the caput of retail operations for Oxfam, said buying second-hand was a large mode to explicit individuality.

"For the festival season, a batch of the (Oxfam) shops volition propulsion unneurotic festival-style windows to assistance radical take their outfits for going. They'll person festival displays wrong and the quality of buying second-hand with Oxfam is that you tin beryllium your ain stylist."

"You tin spell in, you store successful a assortment of brands, you're not being influenced astir the latest trends, and you tin virtually spell and take the pieces and make your ain look unsocial for you.

"Everyone is much conscious than ever present astir sustainability and by buying with Oxfam not lone are you going to look fabulous, and you cognize you're going to consciousness fabulous."

So that's the manner advice. But what to bash astir the weather?

With Glastonbury predicted to beryllium a scorcher, the proposal is to effort and battalion for the vigor - and if it does rain, trusty wellies and a raincoat volition ever beryllium successful style.