{"id":1142,"date":"2026-02-08T15:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2026-02-08T15:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:01:22","slug":"kate-moss-rain-boots-at-glastonbury-a-fashion-moment-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1142","title":{"rendered":"Kate Moss\u2019 rain boots at Glastonbury: A fashion moment to remember"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n Editor\u2019s Note: <\/b>Delving into the archives of pop culture history, \u201cRemember When?\u201d<\/a> is a new series offering a nostalgic look at the celebrity outfits that defined their eras.\n<\/p>\n

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\n Remember when Kate Moss wore wellies (that\u2019s rain boots for those outside the UK) to Glastonbury?\n <\/p>\n

\n As the historic festival once again returns to Worthy Farm, we look back at one of its most memorable fashion moments. After all, no British summer would be complete without copious amounts of mud.\n <\/p>\n

\n And no one has conquered it quite like Moss.\n <\/p>\n

\n Next weekend\u2019s festival marks 20 years since Britain\u2019s best-known supermodel broke fashion\u2019s proverbial fourth wall by joining the mortals in their muddy squalor. Sure, she\u2019d probably spent the weekend glamping in the VIP zone. But a filthy field is England\u2019s great leveler \u2014 and during those brief, well-photographed walks through the Glastonbury<\/a> grounds, cigarette in hand, she was just like us.\n <\/p>\n

\n Until, that is, her choice of practical footwear transformed festival fashion and helped save a heritage boot maker from the brink of obsolescence.\n <\/p>\n

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\n It was the summer\u00a0of 2005 and Moss<\/a> was near the height of her powers. Media interest in her festival whereabouts was amplified by a fixation with her then-nascent dalliance with Pete Doherty. But while The Libertines\u2019 frontman certainly looked more at home in the conditions, it was Moss who grabbed the limelight.\n <\/p>\n

\n Matching a pair of classic black Hunter rain boots with a waistcoat, short shorts and studded belt (and later a glittering tunic), the model was a picture of understated glamor. Below the knee her look was interchangeable with that of a Somerset pig farmer. But above it, she could just have easily emerged from a Chelsea mansion to a well-placed paparazzi ambush.\n <\/p>\n

\n The images quickly went viral (or as viral as they could in the pre-social media age). The bastion of mid-1990s so-called \u201cheroin chic\u201d had become the face of its slightly older, more respectable cousin: mid-2000s festival chic.\n <\/p>\n

\n In the process, wellies secured their place in the popular imagination. No longer the preserve of agriculture, they had become a rubbery status symbol best matched with trilby hats, cravats and other questionable noughties accessories. This once-practical boot had morphed into bourgeois badge of honor indicating that the wearer was prepared to \u201crough it\u201d and still look fabulous (the drug-afflicted rockstar boyfriend remained an optional part of the look).\n <\/p>\n

\n Suddenly, festival wear became its own category of clothing, something far greater than an amalgam of items you didn\u2019t mind ruining. But an even more profound transformation was also taking place \u2013 that of the then-struggling Hunter Boot Limited.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Scottish brand\u2019s true heyday may have been during the World Wars, when it produced huge quantities of waterproof boots for the front lines. But never before in the company\u2019s then 149-year history had its sensible footwear been so desirable. While one shouldn\u2019t overstate the power of the Moss effect (her endorsement couldn\u2019t save the boot maker from entering administration in 2006), it helped set in motion a remarkable turnaround in the company\u2019s fortunes.\n <\/p>\n

\n By 2007, the firm was under new ownership and reporting an 85% increase in year-on-year sales. It has since become a bona fide festival fixture, producing rainwear, outerwear and boots in all manner of colors and styles.\n <\/p>\n

\n Once prized for keeping gangrene at bay in the trenches, Hunter has completed the ultimate 21st-century transformation to become the rainy-day boot de jour for celebrities from Rita Ora to Rihanna, Cara Delevingne to Alexa Chung.\n <\/p>\n

\n And to think that all Kate wanted was a pair of snug, dry feet.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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