20 MONTEREY COUNTY WEEKLY MAY 25-31, 2023 www.montereycountyweekly.com Dress To Impress 20 Acts Not To Miss 22 Global Sounds 24 Doing Good 26 East Meets West 32 Hip-Hop Royalty 33 Cali Roots 2023 runs Thursday, May 25-Sunday, May 28. Monterey County Fair & Event Center, 2004 Fairgound Road, Monterey. $151-$820. Full schedule available at californiarootsfestival.com. Music festival fashion is a class all its own. So how does one get dressed for Cali Roots? By Agata Pop˛eda 2023 One Love, Many Hats he 2023 California Roots Music & Art Festival runs for four days which, for some people, means four distinct, carefully planned outfits. “I will be playing with the feminine and masculine [aspect] this year,” says Emily James, a photographer from Santa Cruz. She has been to the festival before and wore a band tank top that she cut herself. She is going again this year—both to have fun and to shoot photos on one of the days. “I have this nice feminine, asymmetric skirt,” she says. “The plan is to match it with a masculine hat.” Speaking of masculine and feminine, there do seem to be two main ways to approach festival fashion, and they easily align with gender stereotypes. Guys prefer simplicity—an old Good Vibes Only black T-shirt and jeans, perhaps. On the other side of the spectrum is the music festival’s signature sexy kitten, aka Boho Princess Lost in the Middle of the Indian Summer—typically a woman wearing ragged jean shorts with inside pockets sticking out, a tank top with fringed bottom and a naked belly or a flowery, see-through boho blouse with long, loose sleeves. Then, fortunately, you get everything in between. James likes to “get funky and add color” to her outfits, she says, but notes that Cali Roots is “not an over-the-top” Above: Boho tops with floral motifs and frilled bottoms that reveal the belly are a must for the “feminine” approach to Cali Roots fashion. Left: Some people come with homemade signs; signs are sold, traded and given away during the fest. Reggae colors—red, gold and green—are the top choices. DANIEL DREIFUSS DANIEL DREIFUSS
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