45 Years of Music Festival Fashion: From Woodstock to Electric Daisy

In the 45 years since the first Woodstock Music & Art Fair, festival fashion has become a cottage industry. From the beginning, attendees' style choices indicated they were part of a subculture, a subset of society hell-bent on bucking the system (and in the case of Woodstock, going buck-naked). Through the years, large-scale music festivals have gradually become par for the course, from Live Aid and Lollapalooza to more current incarnations Coachella and Electric Daisy Carnival, which inspire both fashion magazines and retail outlets to devote significant space to "festival fashion" spreads. And while each fest has had its stylistic hallmark, the original outdoor musical fete has set the tone — everyone's still just trying to recapture the sartorial freedom and irreverence of those original flower children. Here's a look at the flowing dresses, the piled-on necklaces and the literal flames that have comprised music festival style through the years. By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd