The Rock Boutique has been working very hard lately, with our latest collection dropping in USC and all our independent stockists selling well, we decided it was time for a much needed break. Isle Of White Festival here we come.
I would love to give you the standard ‘what we wore’ blogg post but being a lad makes it a little tricky, So I figure, what the hell, ill give you the lads eye view (fashion style) of the Isle Of White Festival 2011!! Fashions not just for girls you know!!
The last festival I went to was quite a few years ago and since then I had decided that I am definitely far too old for all that and I should probably leave it to the youngans. Well, then IOW announced the line up: Kasabian, Kings Of Leon, Foo Fighters, Seasick Steve, Pixie Lott ect etc. and that was it, I dusted off my Hunters and my straw trillby and off to the south coast we went!!
From left: Mott, Me, Steve, Stevie, Amy
I went with 5 of the best lads you’ll ever meet and Steve G even bought his missus (well I think we actually interrupted a romantic weekend, but she was good as gold). All being very fashion conscious modern men (if I do say so myself) the next few days featured some brilliant festival outfits, some classic lad styling and a heck of a lot of jokes!! The characters in this adventure are easy to introduce, Stevie, my good friend for years, famed for owning just about everything Allsaints have ever made, Dean Stevie’s little brother, Motty, Deans best pal (think Mark and Arg, Croydon style) and Steve G my good pal and Stevies workmate. And of course the token lady and very stylish laddette, girlfriend of Steve G for almost 9 years, Amy.
Looking at it from a bloggers point of view id hit the jackpot, Dean and Mott are the youngest of the group, both 21, they are completely hilarious in a Joey and Chandler way, with there right up to date preppy/Essex style, classic dry wit and constant girl chasing, not only did they remind me of me about 8 years ago they had me in stitches doing things I just haven’t got the energy for any more. Between them I think they had packed half of Topman, Zara and Asos, a tiny useless tent bought from Tesco the day before and not a drop of food, water, sun cream, warm clothes or headache pills The two Steves, Amy and me on the other hand were a bit of a different story. Older and wiser you might say. Steve had everything from cooking pots to wellies to his famous festival jacket, I had a state of the art self assembling tent, arctic ready sleeping bag, battery phone charger and Stevie had got more lager than Fosters Xmas party and more food than my mums weekly shop (and naturally he had packed more than enough Allsaints t-shirts) Day one was spent recovering from the ‘quiet night out’ in Cowes, just around the corner from the festival. Although as it turns out it wasn’t that quiet and I’m pretty sure were not welcome in the sleepy village of Cowes again.
Steve and Amy
I woke up in our B and B and the sun was shining, what to wear was obvious, Aviators were a must (they also turned out to be a must for all of the other lads) Simple Topman T-shirt, ripped denim shorts and timberland boat shoes. Perfect camping/hangover clothing. Stevie went for much the same as me and Dean and Mott were wearing the same clothes as the day before. Don’t panic after breakfast they found a second wind, showered, changed and crawled out to the car wearing navy chinos, low v-neck t-shirts and Toms, and of course the classic Ray Bans. We met Steve and amy in town, looking every bit the stylish couple in buttoned up shirt and deck shoes and Amy in loose fit tee, skinny jeans and gladiators.
My state of the art tent was up in seconds, leaving me and Stevie plenty of time or a few cans and to help all the girls nearby with their tents, by the time we were done playing ‘me real man, build tent, help pretty lady’ Dean and Mott had just about finished arguing over putting up the Tesco postage stamp they were using as a tent and I think Steve had already cooked a 3 course meal on his camping stove.
Skittles Vodka and Allsaints!!
Next came my introduction to a drink I had not previously sampled, it cant be bought in shops and it actually does taste of the rainbow. It goes by the name of Skittles Vodka. Very simple to make, buy a bottle of vodka and separate into 4 smaller bottles then add skittles to each bottle all in different colours, one bottle red, one green etc. The Skittles will melt and you have neat Vodka that tastes of skittles in lots of pretty colours, the outcome of this is that you forget you are drinking pure vodka and so glug it down by the gallon. Trust me this is a mistake as I was soon to find out.
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