Okay, so let me tell you what happened this weekend, because it all seemed fun and play (if you’ve seen my Instagram pictures) but in reality I had to get over some horror first before actually landing on soft Wilderness Festival grounds…
Wellies (the rubber rain boots standing next to me in the picture) are not only a fashion-statement on this side of the pond, but also a necessity once you get anywhere outside London its urban territory (or even sometimes when you just stay in London, during fall for example). So when I hear “festival in the British countryside”, I hear “wellies”, and to be completely honest with you, I am always happy to have a reason to wear wellies. I just love the look they create once you put them on with your fashionable-festival-look. There is just something about them, right?
So last Saturday morning, when I was about to show my mom my full Wilderness-day-1-look including my wellies, I pulled my right wellie on, and after that the left-fucking-hell-what’s-in-my-wellie?%$£&^&^£!@
Seriously, I have never taken off a shoe SO quick! As something SO sharp and pointy cut right into my toe, I threw away the wellie, and in one second literally the whole floor was covered in blood (I am not exaggerating). First thing my mom said “was it a spider?”, well if there are spiders in the UK doing what just happened, I am moving immediately! No it definitely wasn’t a spider, but I couldn’t figure what the hell it could be because they were brand new, never worn, tags still on. So after convincing myself I shouldn’t faint (I can deal with blood, just not my own), and my mom for not passing out because her daughter was bleeding badly (she can handle blood she says, but not of her children), I convinced her a second time to check what the hell was hiding in my wellie!!!
Here it comes… A piece of glass, about 15 cm long and 4 cm wide! Seriously? YES! Now I was thinking the exact same thing as what you are probably thinking right now “how in the world did that piece of glass ended up in that wellie?”. Well I don’t really know, I only know that I got them as a gift from a very lovely, not a putting-glass-in-someone-shoe type of girl. She simply had two pairs of the same wellies, and thought she could make me happy with one pair. Which she absolutely did, but obviously the hidden second “gift” wasn’t as successful…
Anyway, all the above happened when Thomas and James were out to get breakfast (luckily, as this whole event might have been quite traumatic for James), so when they got home they found me hanging on the couch wrapped with 1000 plasters. Hence, question became if I was able to get to, and enjoy two days of Wilderness Festival… But you all know the answer on that one: I went. And so I went through some pain to be with my friends, and have an amazing time. Which I truly had! Downside though is that I am currently not really able to wear closed shoes (and I am not willing to wear wellies all day), so flip-flops and bare feet will have to do for today’s look. Quite freeing I must say!
Shirt H&M Trend (similar here and here), jeans Paige Denim, bracelet Hermes, wellies Le Chameau.
