What your Bestival fancy dress says about you
A psychological analysis
The Bad Taste
The outfit: Reaching its peak at Bestival in the late 00s when the death of Steve Irwin launched a thousand safari suit costumes with a stingray attached to the front, the bad taste effort usually requires a passing knowledge of current affairs or celebrity culture, at least enough to know which well loved public figure has died in an embarrassing or autoerotic accident recently or been revealed as a closet paedophile. Hugely misjudged racial and national stereotypes also come loosely under this heading.
The wearer: The quality of the outfit will go a long way to sorting the satirical from the needlessly offensive. Put it this way: there's a thin line between a dark and cruelly inventive sense of humour and just being the hundredth dickhead at a festival dressed as Jimmy Savile.
See also 'The Topical'
