Glastonbury Festival fashion history: Remember when Kate Moss wore rain boots?

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Remember when Kate Moss wore wellies (that's rain boots for those outside the UK) to Glastonbury?

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.

And no one has conquered it quite like Moss.

Some 19 years ago, Britain's best-known supermodel broke fashion's proverbial fourth wall and joined the mortals in their muddy squalor. Sure, she'd probably spent the weekend glamping in the festival's VIP zone. But a filthy field is England's great leveler - and during those brief, well-photographed walks through the Glastonbury grounds, cigarette in hand, she was just like us.

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

It was the summer of 2005 and Moss 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' frontman certainly looked more at home in the conditions, it was Moss who grabbed the limelight.