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What do you based your music hc's for the Losers Club on? Richie, specifically? I love this stuff lol!

Fantastic question!!

Well, my music head-canons are based on the novel Losers Club mostly but they are signs in the mini series & movies.

How I kinda picked everyone’s taste up was from reading the novel, obviously lol, and I gathered each Losers music references/mentions and then combined this with their general tastes and personalities. (I hope this makes sense!)

I’ll just go loser by loser to explain, I guess!! I will link each characters Spotify playlist that I made as well!!

Starting with Stan, his big music tie-in is his wonderful Paul Anka impression!!! Oooof what a kid! Stan kinda strikes me as the kind of guy who would grow up listening to more stuff of that sort. He also grows to wear bell-bottoms…love that hippie fashion kid. SO for me, Stan’s always into those weird, pop 60′s stuff like ‘Diana’ by Paul Anka. He also was mentioned to have discussed Neil Sedaka with Eddie which is another artist that fits under this umbrella. Stan is a weird kid, so I always give him the weird songs. Stan has artists like Paul Anka, Neil Sedaka, Herman’s Hermits, The Monkees etc. I will also stand by ‘Goodbye Cruel World’ by James Darren & ‘Happy Go-Lucky Me’ by Paul Evans being top Stan songs. (His playlist)

Next is Mike, SO as of this moment, I can’t remember if Mike has any specific music references to him. BUT from reading about him and falling in love with his character, I gathered what I think is an accurate music taste. Mike strikes me as a folk, country/country rock kind of guy. I tend to give him artists like Bob Seger, Jim Croce, Eagles, Jackson Browne, Neil Young, etc. Artists that fall under that genre umbrella, y’know? Singer/Song-writers who sing about their lives with their whole soul. People with songs that really make you feel!!! I LOVE picking out his music because it’s so…emotional lol!! (His Playlist)

Moving on to Ben, I can pick out a music mention for Ben which comes from the chapter, ‘Ben Hanscom Takes a Fall’. In this scene he reflects on how he always thinks of Bev when he hears ‘Earth Angel’ by the Penguins. This kinda fuels the music vibe I got from him which is kinda romantic. He might be a little embarrassed by it but I think Ben gravitates towards romantic songs. I don’t think he particularly cares about artists, more so songs WHICH is why I think if any of the Losers were to listen to modern music, It’d be Ben. So with Ben, I’m more song focused. Songs about love, friendship and life. (His Playlist)

Now to Beverly, I tend to align Bev with Richie (who we’ll talk about last because he’s THE music man) so they enjoy the same bands but they usually have the opposite opinions on specific topics such as Beatles VS Stones. She’s more for stones. I also got the vibe that she generally just likes 50′s/60′s dance music. Take her appearance in ‘11/22/63′ for example where she’s teaching Richie to Lindy-hop to Glenn Miller’s ‘In The Mood’. The thing with Bev that makes it more difficult to combine each version of her to create a definitive taste is that book Bev is very different to movie Bev. (Her Playlist)

And now to Bill, he’s got some specific music tie-ins especially with the band: The Grateful Dead & has a poster of theirs. He also apparently gets maudlin when he’s drunk and plays Grateful Dead records too loud (that quotes comes in around page 137). SO Bill kinda overlaps with Mike for me. He also gets a lot of folk, country/country rock vibes. LOTS of songs about growing up and leaving past innocence behind because that’s his general thing. So again, Bill’s got artists like Don Henley, Grateful Dead, Jackson Browne etc under his umbrella. (His Playlist)

For Eddie, his taste was very interesting to gather!! First off, Eds mentions his collection of Barry Manilow records-actually, their Myra’s. He spent fiftreen hundred dollars on a sound-system so she wouldn’t miss a note on her ‘Supreme Greatest Hits’ album. BUT Eddie definitely loves Barry too, I have a post about this here. Eddie also LOVES to go past the Neibolt Street Church school so that he can hear the Gospel music coming from inside. That’s actually one of my favorite Eddie traits!! I think that comes up around Chapter 7, ‘The Dam in the Barrens’. SO I tend to give Eddie softer things but some songs with edge. A lot of songs about having strength and pushing through. So he’s got artists like Barry, Billy Joel, Beatles etc. (His Playlist)

AND FINALLY RICHIE, this guy…..man. His whole personality is music. I made an older post about this here. Richie’s chapters are so FULL of music references, impressions etc. PLUS he grew up to be a disc jockey. He loves and mentions things like Bruce Springsteen, The Who, Jimi Hendirx, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, James Brown, and Paul Simon. ALSO you can’t forget the BIGGEST Richie + music thing, ‘The Richie Tozier All-Dead Rock Show’ around page 562. Music is so important to this man. Memories and such come to him as music references such as: “What’s that Springsteen song say? Glory days…gone in the wink of a young girl’s eye. What young girl? Why, Bev, of course. Bev.”

+ Richie’s chapters are full of this stuff. He LOVES Bruce Springsteen, The Beach Boys (LOVE the part in the mini series where he rolls up singing ‘I Get Around’), John Lennon, Paul Simon, Tom Petty and SO MUCH MORE. He is all about classic rock, it’s an insult to associate him with anything else other than classic rock. Plus Richie’s answering machine music is ‘Rock and Roll Girls’ by John Fogerty which leads to Mike saying:

“By the way, I liked the Creedance.”

Richie laughed. “Shit, that ain’t Creedance, that’s ‘Rock and Roll Girls’ from Fogerty’s new album. ‘Centerfield’ it’s called, you haven’t heard any of it?”

SO you know Richie is obsessed with music & isn’t afraid to correct people and talks about it ALL the time.

Richie Tozier is THE Classic Rock Fan. (His Playlist)

THANKS FOR THIS ASK! Most of my music posts are on my blog tagged as ‘Music’ + ‘Music Again’ if you guys are interested in this kind of stuff. I have A LOT of music posts/Losers Club + music posts.

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Special Report: The Canyon Scene

Jerry Hopkins, Rolling Stone, 22 June 1968

[From a larger article on the Los Angeles scene.]

It is the canyons—Laurel and Topanga, especially—that house the people who make the music. Laurel Canyon is a paisley gash that runs from Schwab’s on Sunset to the suburban San Fernando Valley, and Topanga Canyon is a dusty-woodsy pass leading from Malibu Beach to the same suburban sprawl. The environments in these canyons differ, but the people do not.

Van Dyke Parks calls Laurel Canyon “the seat of the beat” in his album Song Cycle, for it is here the music-makers create and rehearse, using the canyon walls as a natural baffle—and the neighbors don’t seem to mind so much.

Stand on the wood porch outside the Canyon Country Store halfway up the hill and watch the neighborhood file in for supplies. In a few days time you will have seen members of Clear Light and the Turtles, Neil Young and Richie Furay (former Buffalo), Lee Michaels, Bryan MacLean (Love), Joe Larson (Merry-Go-Round), Micky Dolenz, Joni Mitchell, A&M’s Michael Vosse, Elektra engineer John Haney, Phil Austin and Phil Proctor of the Firesign Theatre, Andy Wickham, Electra producer Barry Friedman (who shared a home in the canyon until recently with Paul Rothchild), Carol King (Goffin and King), and a dozen others of this musical, house-hopping fraternity. It is also in Laurel Canyon that Eric Burdon has a home, and Frank Zappa just bought the old Tom Mix house.

The attraction of the small store, with a cleaners and tiny restaurant nearby, is social as much as culinary. It is here where dates are made, new homes are found (on a bulletin board or through friends), grass might be scored, and where you usually get some sort of vague answer to the question, “What’s happening?"

Billy Of Ridpath Drive “If there were more mobility in this town,” says Billy James, a personal manager and music publisher who lives just up the hill from the store, “the Canyon store would look like MacDougal Street on Saturday night.”

Billy lives on Ridpath Drive, a steep twisting road that puffs to a dead-end after dividing 50 or 60 small frame houses slammed up against the mountainside. An afternoon stroll along his block reveals the essence of canyon existence.

At 8504 Ridpath, where Billy lives with his wife Judy and son Mark, is a mailbox with a typewritten list of the legitimate addresses for 8504; there are at least 20 companies, groups and individuals on the list. Inside the house this day, the dutiful wife is preparing a 1 p.m. breakfast of hamburgers for Billy and for Jackson Browne, a singer-songwriter Billy represents. Between phone calls, in a small dark “office” cluttered with albums, photographs, collages, tapes and acetates, Billy talks about the canyon.

“I lived in Beverly Hills my first two years here,” he said, “and then I moved into the clear air of the hills. It was either the hills or the ocean; both are here and it seemed silly not to live comfortably.

“I wasn’t the first to move into Laurel, but there weren’t too many here then—musicians and so on. Arthur Lee [Love] lived nearby—and that was about it. It’s all happened in the last year or so. I don't know why, really. If creative artists need to live apart from the community at large, they also have a desire to live among their own kind and so an artistic community develops.”

The Distant Drums As Billy talks, you hear someone in the near distance rehearsing. Billy explains it is the drummer for the International Submarine band. The drumming becomes louder as you pass the house and walk another few yards to 8524, Barry Friedman’s home. There you find Barry listening to tapes he has just produced for Elektra. Outside and on a different level from the house someone is cleaning the swimming pool and in another room of the sparsely furnished but rambling house a young Canadian songwriter named Rolf Kempf is picking and singing quietly.

Barry turns up the tapes for a visitor and begins to hype the group, the Holy Modal Rounders. You can see his lips move and barely hear him as an earthslide of sound fills the room from two huge studio speakers mounted near the ceiling. When the volume is cut, Rolf returns to his picking.

The following day Billy James is not home in the afternoon, but meeting with a record company. The house of the International Submarine Band is quiet as its members sleep. And Barry Friedman’s home is asprawl with musicians listening to albums and rapping—several of those present being the members of the Buffalo Springfield, wondering what’s next

Househopping Earthworms Laurel Canyon has been described by pop writer Richard Goldstein as a place where streets appear as if laid out by earthworms. And so it is. The earth is baked dry and verdant with semi-tropical growth by turns, and the drives and trails knot incredibly—linking a community of sound.

(A footnote regarding the househopping mode of living in LA., which can only be described as incestuous: before Barry Friedman and Paul Rothchild moved into what is now Barry’s home, the tenant was disc jockey B. Mitchell Reed �� who, in turn, now lives in David Crosby’s house in Beverly Glen, while Crosby commutes to his boat in Florida … and Barry’s old house, in Hollywood, is now inhabited by Doug Weston, owner of the Troubadour.)

Topanga Canyon is a stranger and somehow gentler place, removed from Hollywood and the center of the scene by almost 20 miles. (But still in L.A.) Say “Topanga” to someone in L.A. and the first-word-you-think-of response is “hippie.” But Topanga carried Goldwater in 1960, and the American Legion post there is a powerful one. Still, it is where Linda Ronstadt and Bob Kimmel of the Stone Poneys lived when the world began to spin. It is where Barry McGuire went to collect himself and began getting back to nature and where, today, in small frame homes against clay hillsides live two songwriters named Alexander (Gordon and Gary), Chris Hillman and Kevin Kelly of the Byrds, and the old Buffalo Springfield’s Steve Stills.

Laurel Canyon is the sort of canyon where you’d expect to find (and will find) a lot of motorcycles. Topanga Canyon is the sort where you’d look for horses. Both these means of transportation are popular among the music-makers who live in these canyons: bikes in Laurel, horses in Topanga. (VW campers in both.)

Immediate Medical Attention Los Angeles is a strange town, seeming at times as if it were made in Japan and shipped here in small parts, then assembled by a committee of capricious drunks. But it has a pull, an attraction that may often (if not always) be related to—but somehow a little stronger than—the record company and the money it represents.

Frank Zappa, after living for 18 months in New York, returned to Los Angeles in May. “New York is a good city to make money in,” he said, “but I can’t write there. I have to be in L. A. There’s something very creative here.”

Roger McGuinn of the Byrds says the music scene suffers some from the city’s unusually beautiful climate, its “terribly relaxed attitude,” but Derek Taylor thinks those points make L. A. valuable. “This town makes no demands on you and it offers you everything good,” he said. “There seem to be 30 hours in every day and eight days in each week. There is a leisurely pace, but a pace of getting it done. It’s all here —the best facilities, the best climate. You don’t have to leave L.A. on business, you know, unless you like to travel on business; everyone you know or like wants to come here. Even the Beatles, who never go anywhere.”

There are others who feel Los Angeles is not yet the blossom Derek says it is. Michael Vosse feels the earth in Los Angeles is “in need of immediate medical attention.” “It's sick,” he said. “The business is sick and we have to keep attacking and working to make it well.”

While John Hartmann, manager of the Canned Heat and one of the Kaleidoscope owners, says, “The L. A. music scene is almost an unborn child. It’s a whole new thing today. The industry is generating product at an incredible pace, and new groups and new record companies are appearing hourly. I believe the LA. scene started with the Buffalo Springfield and I think the Doors really kicked off this new era. Now stand back and watch out!”

So as L.A. troops from club to club by night, from studio to studio by day, or hides out in a canyon to rehearse and write, the scene begins to unfold. The many scenes haze softly at the edges and begin to overlap.

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Boho Style: Everything You Need To Know

Artistic, carefree and liberated, boho style is more than a fashion trend—it’s a way of life. Associated with late 60s and 70s fashion, modern-day boho style is inspired by these eras’ creative expression movements. Flowy dresses, embroidered details, earthy tones, fringe and flared silhouettes take the spotlight. With a momentous ideology and history, this style represents a culture all its own. So, where did it all begin? Let’s time warp to the past to learn more about the history of bohemian romance dress stitch fix style.

A Bohemian Style History Lesson

The exact origins of women’s boho style and culture are broadly debated. The end of the French Revolution in 1799 brought poverty that struck writers, artists and creatives. They had no choice but to wear old, worn-out clothing that was far from fashionable. This evolved into a counterculture lifestyle that focused less on belongings and more on creative individualism.

Others debate that the original stitch fix bohemian romance were the nomadic Romani people from Bohemia in the Czech Republic. The Romani people rejected mainstream lifestyles and rebelled against societal norms. No matter what the origin may be, one thing remains the same—being bohemian means living an unconventional lifestyle. This translates to modern day bohemian romance dress style with freedom of expression through clothing. Think effortless and relaxed silhouettes paired with casual accessories. The result? An overall artistic, creative mishmash of boho features.

What Is Boho Style in Women’s Fashion?

At its core, bohemian style is about being free—in mind, body and soul. It’s characterized by a laid-back, expressive essence. Free-spirited, women’s boho style has continuously evolved throughout the years, but the hype has remained strong. Unstructured silhouettes, natural fabrics and folk-inspired patterns are quintessential boho elements. The best part? Boho style is all about mixing these components with comfort. Comfy and stylish? It’s a win-win.

Boho Chic Style: An Updated Spin on the Boho Trend

Boho chic style is a modern take on the boho aesthetic that has become a global fashion phenomenon. It draws from various bohemian style influences, with a focus on a more sophisticated flair. A boho chic look typically combines bold bohemian details with simple, contemporary pieces. Wayfarer, hippie and 70s fashion trends contribute to this elevated boho style for women.

The term “boho chic” became famous when celebrities Nicole Richie and Sienna Miller began embracing one-of-a-kind boho looks circa 2005. Spotted on Y2K fashion icons, peasant-style dresses, floppy hats and slouchy boots became mainstream sensations. Mary-Kate Olsen made boho chic a household name with her penchant for voluminous maxi-dresses in the early 2000s. We can’t forget about the oversized shades that added dramatic flair.

Today, boho chic style has emerged with a new twenty-first-century bohemian era. Music festivals like Bonnaroo and Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, have revived the boho chic style movement. Concert goers take the spirited and nostalgic building blocks of bohemian fashion and adapt it to a current look. High-waisted denim shorts, crochet crop tops and body jewelry have become token festival essentials. You can thank celebrities Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez.

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dippedanddripped · 5 years

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Music festival season is officially here, with bands and swarms of fans descending on fields and fair grounds across the U.S. This weekend it’s Boston Calling’s turn to entertain the masses in its 10th edition.

This summer also marks the 50th anniversary of what's been called the mother of American pop and rock music festivals: Woodstock. That got us thinking about how festivals have evolved since that dairy farm in Bethel, New York became the stuff of legend.

About half-a-million like-minded hippies converged at Woodstock in 1969 to see more than 30 musical acts, including Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and Richie Havens.

That rainy weekend still looms large in Michael Lang’s mind. He partnered in creating the now mythic music event.

“For us, it was more of a sociological experiment than just a music festival,” Lang recalled when I spoke to him at the "Woodstock 50: Then and Now" symposium at Berklee College of Music.

“And it wasn't just about music, it was about all the arts and it was about the counterculture and all our values,” he continued. “That's why it was called ‘Three Days of Peace and Music’ and that's what happened — only on steroids. You know it was much bigger than planned, but it manifested in the kind of result that I was hoping it would.”

Even with its miles of stuck traffic, lack of amenities and over-abundance of mud, Berklee professor Jeff Dorenfeld said Woodstock laid a blueprint for massive music gatherings that followed.

While the Monterey Pop Festival and Human Be-In happened in the winter and summer of '67, respectively (Dorenfeld went to the latter), he suspects if you asked folks to name the first festival, “90% would say Woodstock. That's the one. That's the festival that started everything.”

Dorenfeld is founder of the Berklee Popular Music Institute and has been going to all kinds of music festivals since the psychedelic '60s, including one that no one would ever want to repeat.

“Altamont was after Woodstock. The Rolling Stones wanted to do a free show on the West Coast,” he said, recalling how 400,000 people descended on a rundown speedway in northern California. The Hells Angels ran security which led to fights and a fatal stabbing.

Altamont marked a turning point for festivals. “From there obviously promoters started to realize that they needed more security, more controls, you know, to produce better festivals,” he said.

In his past life Dorenfeld worked with Ozzy, Sammy Hagar and the band Boston. He still goes to a lot of music festivals these days — at least six this summer and early fall, including Governor's Ball, Essence, Country LakeShake, Lollapalooza, Music Midtown and Osheaga — with Berklee musicians and his artist management students.

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They're learning the rigors of touring with Berklee bands on something like a festival “boot camp.”

The music industry veteran draws a line between contemporary festivals and versions from decades past.

In the '70s, Dorenfeld said promoters staged huge stadium shows with multiple acts for upwards of 80,000 fans. They were a form of festival, but unlike today, tickets where cheap.

Jump to the '80s and you saw huge, charity benefits like Live Aid. At the Philadelphia iteration at JFK stadium, Joan Baez greeted the crowd with, “Good morning children of the '80s, this is your Woodstock, and it’s long overdue...”

As the music industry shifted to CDs and the internet was born, playing live would become an increasingly important source of revenue for artists in the '90s. Dorenfeld points to the H.O.R.D.E. tour (short for Horizons of Rock Developing Everywhere) started by the band Blues Traveler.

“Lilith Fair, Lollapalooza, Warped Tour,” he went on, “all those were happening.”

Jane’s Addiction singer Perry Farrell took his multi-act, alternative rock festival Lollapalooza on the road between 1991 and '97. That roving musical carnival would ultimately redefine itself in Chicago’s Grant Park after another fest-olution turning point. In 1999 Dorenfeld said two guys who did punk shows in LA had an idea that would change the festival landscape.

“Coachella came about by the promoters taking a chance on doing a festival in the desert, and realizing a destination festival people would go to,” he remembered. Coachella helped usher in the current era of elaborate, lifestyle festivals that are owned by a handful of big conglomerates. AEG and Live Nation being the big two.

“There's been a consolidation across the industry over the last five to 10 years or so,” Brian Appel, co-founder of Boston Calling said. He knows this first hand. Boston Calling started as an independent festival on City Hall Plaza. When Appel’s group wanted to relocate and expand the fest a few years back, the Madison Square Garden Company purchased controlling interest.

“There are not a lot of like purely independently owned festivals that are out there because it's a business model that, you know, changes year after year,” he explained, “and it's good if you've got a big partner company with you to help during lean times and to be there for you during good times.”

With that support, Appel says his team can make Boston Calling a three-day, multi-genre experience.

And that’s what a lot of festival-goers have come to expect, according to Dorenfeld.

“It is all about lifestyle, it’s the food, it’s the show, it’s the grounds how they do it,” he said.

It’s also the multiple stages, comedy acts, podcasts, craft beer, VIP seating, Wi-Fi and expensive headliners (like Beyonce!) who often make millions for a single appearance.

"The ticket prices are going to have to reflect that," Dorenfeld said. "Everyone wants to go see the headliners."

With well more than 100 festivals of all sizes and genres in the U.S. — from ginormous to boutique to artist-curated — it’s a highly competitive, high-stakes model. So much so, it’s unclear if Woodstock 50 will even happen. The golden anniversary festival long-planned for August is in question after its financial backers pulled out this month, leaving organizers embroiled in legal strife. But the founders are keeping the faith they’ll still be able to evoke the spirit of peace and love they created back in 1969

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How to Wear The Boho-Chic Fashion Trend

One of the most spectacular and feminine styles that exist as trends in the world of fashion is the boho or bohemian one, which forms an important part of the fashion lines of many brands. Originally, the etymology of the word goes to the land of Bohemia, having been located on the territory of the present day Czech Republic. Longing for freedom and yearning to break all the accepted rules and dogmatic stereotypes of the world surrounding them, the carriers of these ideology created a very specific and, indeed, unique style, serving as an irreplaceable source of inspiration even nowadays. If you also long to be a bohemian goddess, make sure you know all the rules and style tips on how to wear the boho-chic fashion trend!

Historically, boho is quite a young style, having originated as such in the ‘60s. So it’s the style of artists, the style of free and beautiful people and just the style of those, who want to be free! If we were to define the boho mood as such, probably we would use descriptive details like joyfulness and openness to the world. The constant search of new inventions and discoveries, the longing towards everything that’s artistic and beautiful and the absolutely free and at the same time harmonious inner world are what the boho style is actually shaped with.

The Main Elements of the Boho Style

In this section we can speak about a number of peculiar characteristic aspects that the bohemian style is especially noted for, among which the keys are:

• The use of natural fabrics like linen, velvet, chiffon, silk, fur, suede, leather, denim, cotton, etc.

• Multi-layered textures.

• Comfort in everything, especially regarding shoes, which are traditionally made with not too high heels, on platform or wedges.

• The lavish amount of accessories, including bracelets, sunglasses, necklaces, belts, earrings, pearls or jewels, bands, headbands etc.

• Natural tones and colors. This immediately implies the absence of neon shades.

• The existence of floral patterns, checks, ethnic inspired prints, eclectic hints and avant-garde style accents.

• High waisted designs, flare finishes, fringes, big accessories, lace, maxi skirts, variously textured pieces, knitted details, etc.

• You shouldn’t include more than four shades in the combos if the garments you pick are already catchy and made of some attention-grabbing materials or textures. You may thus use tones like black, gray, beige, or brown as key options, spicing them up with golden, purple, red or bordeaux shades.

Basic Types of The Boho-Chic Style

When talking about the boho-chic style, we can’t but also note the similarities that exist between it and the hippie style, as well as that of vintage looks. Still, the main trend of boho looks may be divided into three main groups.

• For the classy boho style, details like mohair, velvet, and knitwear, often complemented with jacquard deign prints are typical.

• For some more romantic looks, the application of soft and weightless fabrics like chiffon and lace is descriptive. Floral decorations, ribbons, and bows are also a good way of creating the romantic and dreamy images. The inclination towards vintage looks is noticeable in this respect.

• The following option is the boho hippie style encompassing the characteristic details of the hippie style and merging them with the boho ideology. The outcome of this is the usage of lavish and bright colors, matched with the girly and romantic vibes.

However, apart from these three basic directions, we can also speak about the style interferences like folk, military, and even gipsy style garments. There are also certain principles underlying the design of the boho looks, according to which it’s important:

• Not to copy others’ styles and designs, but to come up with something individual and creative, and also to be sure to include accessories in the combinations, using them as primary accents.

• As for the designs, one primary characteristic feature is the use of multiple layers of fabrics, oversized knitted sweaters topping dresses, a variety of accessories, and catchy and bright handbags, all put in a charming harmony with each other.

• The color palette is the following distinguishing aspect of the boho-chic style, coming with unusual print and pattern solutions, thus also shaping the bright and unexpected tone combinations. This style also allows the use of pastel and neutral shades like gray, blue, and pink in order to create the weightless effect and the softness of the looks.

• Materials used for the combinations are just as important, thus coming with similar options as we noted in case of boho looks in general, placing a special emphasis on the natural fabrics used.

The Main Characteristics of Boho-Chic Style

The Choice of Garments

The easiest way of going boho is incorporating some typical bohemian style clothing into your wardrobe, including maxi dresses or maxi skirts (learn: How to Wear Maxi Skirts), which can be matched with crochet tops, oversized shirts, graphic t-shirts or simple chambray tops.

Tunics, slouchy knitted sweaters, ripped denim pieces, like short shorts, jeans or rompers, loosely hanging mini dresses, crochet, denim or fur vests are other typical bohemian style garments. In addition you can also use garments like ripped jeans, velour or velvet pants, cardigans and jackets especially when they are designed with floral prints, trench coats, fur outerwear garments, etc.

Footwear

As for boho style shoes, the exact types of footwear that you need are ballet flats, ethnic inspired sandals having the influence of Greek, Roman, or African styles, cowboy boots, etc., but the most important is that they should be matching the shade of the garments and more preferably come in neutral tones like beige or brown. For more options, think gladiator sandals or neutral ankle boots, often carrying buckles or fringe details.

Boho Accessories

Coming to bohemian accessories, we can first of all speak about pieces like fedora hats, turbans, headwraps and headbands, colorful scarves and vintage-style sunglasses, bracelets and other jewelry pieces that can become ideal finishing touches for your boho-chic looks! In addition, you can also opt for silver Mexican bracelets, Arabic finger rings, African necklaces, big pendants, etc.

Comfort, neutral colors and an easy feel are the main descriptive elements of the boho-chic style. Although the clothing pieces and the accessories take the center stage in such looks, it’s no less important to pay attention to your hair and makeup. Boho-chic style requires a minimal makeup look and easy out-of-bed hairstyles or ones featuring braids and relaxed top knots.

How to Go Boho In The Cold Weather

An idea persists among many ladies that boho is exclusively for the warm weather and when it gets colder, going boho is useless. Still, this is quite erroneous, because in case of being styled correctly, boho style can, indeed, form some very comfy and cool looks for the fall/winter seasons too.

For instance, you can pick cotton, denim, or linen skirts in bright and saturated shades. Big prints and patterns and options like florals and ethic inspired variants are especially recommended.

Finally, you just need to combine this with the dark shade of the leggings and a monochrome jacket. In addition, you may use a minimalistically designed white shirt for the absolute perfection.

However, if you don’t feel like wearing skirts, you can go for skinny pants, adorned with some thematic design patterns or other types of accents matching them with voluminous and relaxed tops or some warm jackets taken with minimalistic forms.

Where to Wear Boho

There are a number of occasions, which are especially suitable for opting for boho. They go as follows!

Walks

Boho is simply perfect for walks with your family or friends, since it’s comfy and cute at the same time, that is, the garments do not limit your movements and don’t act as factors for you to get tired quicker.

Workplace

Boho can easily be interpreted into classic looks as well, that’s why it is also recommended wearing boho to work, of course, taking into account the fact that the quantities of shiny details and the use of more muted shades are preferable.

Shopping

Another great idea is going boho for shopping. This is again explained with the fact of comfort prevailing in the boho style.

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Finally, you can also wear the boho trend at home, since this will become a universal and extremely suitable way of having chic looks everywhere including home!

Talking about the exclusions, we may first of all note leather, synthetic fabrics, polyester, and natural fur elements. Fans of this style value boho not only as a style of dressing but also take it as a lifestyle. They often happen to be vegetarians and act for the protection of animal rights.

Among the celebrities that love bohemian looks we can note Kate Moss, who is considered to be the founder of this style, but also Siena Miller, the Olsen sisters, Kirsten Dunst, Nicole Richie, Mischa Barton, and Neve Campbell.

So look like a bohemian goddess, a child of flowers, following the principles of the creation of these romantic and uber-charming looks!

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