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Today marks the 50th year anniversary of the iconic British music festival, which took place in 1970 and was attended by just 1,500 people.
Since then, the annual celebration has become just as exciting for musical fans as it has for fashion ones.
There was a time when festival fashion was a slave to practicality: wear wellies to keep the mud off and waterproof jackets to stay dry – maybe splash some glitter on your cheeks for good measure.
At least, it was until Kate Moss , Sienna Miller and Alexa Chung started going to Glastonbury , and soon turned the Pilton-based bacchanal into as much of a sartorial spectacle as a musical one.
Vinyl trousers, low-hanging disc belts and slip dresses were the key staples, marking the beginning of the “boho chic” trend that soon became synonymous with the aforementioned starlets.
Elsewhere, Hunter wellies were paired with waistcoats and denim cut-offs, while leather jackets were thrown over just about everything you could think of.
You only have to click through a few archive snaps to see just how different the Glastonbury aesthetic from the days of yore was from the glossy sheen of glitter, neon and sequins you see at festivals now.
Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the yearsShow all 26 1 /26Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Kate Moss, 2003 Only Moss could transform an utterly ordinary pastel pink shirt into a festival fashion staple. All she had to do was tie a scarf loosely around her hips to add some structure, throw on a pair of classic noughties shades, and bam, you've got yourself a bohemian festival ensemble.
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Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Sienna Miller, 2004 Miller wears neon yellow shades that might've been better suited to a nightclub in Ibiza, but somehow, when paired with the thrown-over grey tracksuit top, denim shorts and black woolly tights, the British actor makes them work for her at Glastonbury.
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Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Sienna Miller, 2004 Miller was pictured wearing those same sunglasses later at the festival, this time paired with a black frilled mini dress and a studded low-slung leather belt.
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Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Kate Moss, 2005 For the first day of the festival, Moss opted for a black waistcoat with grey tracksuit shorts and black Hunter wellies.
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Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Kate Moss, 2005 Moss pictured walking across the festival's Leftfield stage in the ultimate rock star ensemble, consisting of a detailed white waistcoat with an oversized leather jacket and a studded handbag.
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Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Kate Moss and Pete Doherty, 2005 One of Moss' most famous looks, here the British model pairs a glittering gold jumper with an oversized bomber jacker and some rather muddy black Hunter wellies. Doherty, whose shoes look equally muddied, wears a graphic white T-shirt, black skinny jeans and a denim jacket with his signature trilby.
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Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Kate Moss, 2007 A candid photograph captures Moss backstage at the Park acoustic stage wearing white denim shorts and a cropped sequin T-shirt.
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Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Pete Doherty and Kate Moss, 2007 This famous shot of the couple was taken backstage at the Other Stage. Moss wears black skinny vinyl jeans while Doherty opted for a loose-fitting grey suit with a checkerboard waistcoat and scarf. Of course, Doherty also wears his trademark hat.
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Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Pixie Geldof, 2007 Catsuits are a festival staple and Geldof wears hers with a leather jacket over the top and accessorizing the ensemble with a pair of bug-eyed sunglasses.
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Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Kate Moss, 2008 Sometimes simplicity is best, as Moss shows here in her jeans and khaki jacket combo.
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Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Paloma Faith, 2010 The British singer was pictured backstage at the festival wearing a bright gold two-piece and a very large bow-shaped green hat that complemented her auburn locks.
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Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Emma Watson, 2010 The British actor donned a camouflage corset-style top with denim jeans and black wellies.
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Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Florence Welch, 2013 The singer, who has performed at the festival several times, wore a bright patterned T-shirt dress with brown knee-high boots. Her companion opted for an equally eye-catching printed jacket.
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Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Alexa Chung, 2014 The British TV presenter-turned-fashion designer kickstarted the slip dress trend with this Glastonbury look, pairing her strappy silver one with a grey jumper, khaki Barbour jacket and mini green Hunter wellies.
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Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Adwoa Aboah, 2014 The British model added a splash of sunshine to her red and black ensemble with bright yellow pom pom earrings.
Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Laura Whitmore, 2014 The British TV presenter paired her printed shirt with denim cut-offs and a dark green army jacket with leather sleeves.
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Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Jaime Winstone, 2015 Crop tops are a perennial festival fashion staple, and Winstone shows us why with this classic psychedelic print style that she paired with white denim shorts and oversized hoop earrings.
Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Daisy Lowe, 2016 Lowe kept things simple in an all-black ensemble but added a jolt of colour with an electric blue shoulder bag.
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Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Douglas Booth, 2016 The British actor was photographed wearing a short-sleeved tropical printed shirt with black denim shorts and converse.
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Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Edie Campbell, 2016 Campbell brought a dose of aviator style to the festival in this classic sheepskin jacket that she paired with black straight-leg jeans and Dr Martens.
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Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Leomie Anderson, 2016 The British model struck a pose in the festival's illustrious tipi village wearing black high-waisted denim shorts, an American flag-style bikini top and high-top converse.
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Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Nick Grimshaw, 2016 The former Radio 1 Breakfast Show host wore distressed blue jeans with a Coach jumper and Hunter wellies.
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Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Poppy Delevigne, 2016 The British model was pictured wearing a red floral tea dress with black boots and a black shearling jacket.
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Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Alexa Chung, 2016 Chung opted for a multi-coloured mohair jumper dress, which she paired with a purple waterproof jacket and black Hunter wellies.
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Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Millie Mackintosh, 2016 The former Made in Chelsea star channeled a bohemian aesthetic in this sheer lace skirt with a white crop top and a black leather jacket.
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Glastonbury Festival: Best celebrity looks over the years Suki Waterhouse and Lily Donaldson, 2016 The British model duo wore matching Hunter wellies with Waterhouse keeping things casual in a black sweatshirt and beanie hat while Donaldson opted for a double denim look.
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Unlike the sprightly-clothed crowd at Coachella – whose California sunshine lends itself to tropical prints and tie-dye – the early noughties Glastonbury attendee favoured a more muted sartorial palette, predicated by grungy khakis and distressed denims.
From those famous snaps of Moss with former boyfriend Pete Doherty to more recent, but no less notable, contributions from Daisy Lowe, Edie Campbell and Adwoa Aboah, browse through the best looks from Glastonbury over the years by clicking through the gallery above.
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