This is part two of my Warped Tour fashion series. View all posts from Warped Tour.

disclaimer: these are just my personal opinions, feel free to leave your own in the comments

The Best: Ash Costello

I remember hearing about New Years Day years ago, and I actually didn’t even realize they were still a band until I saw them on the lineup for this years Warped Tour, so it was a nice surprise to see lead singer Ash Costello wearing lots of cute stuff (they were only on the tour for two weeks and are gone now). I love oxford shoes, and perhaps I’m biased towards this outfit because I almost bought her exact pair at H&M and didn’t only because they’re too much like a pair I already have. While I prefer lace-topped thigh highs as far a lingerie goes, her all-black pair look much more casual and less “trying too hard to be sexy” (like a certain someone on Warped). The studded shorts are cute, and although I would feel way too naked wearing that bodysuit with just a bra under it, it does look good on her. The black on black looks much better than when she wore that same black bra under a white lace bodysuit. Overall, cute outfit.

view the post about this outfit with links to buy her shorts and bodysuit

The Worst: Juliet Simms

Juliet’s fashion is very hit or miss for me. A lot of times I think the individual pieces are tacky, but with the way she puts them together with piles of jewelry I end up liking it. But if anything could end up saving her mom shorts, it’s definitely not a crop top. I do like some high-waisted shorts, like the ones with a wide waistband two or three buttons stacked on top of the zipper instead of a fly the size of Texas. But these are literal 80′s/90′s mom jeans with no updating, and the crop top just makes it worse. I get that crop tops and retro denim shorts are “in” right now, but these are bad, bad trends that need to stop. It’s not really figure-flattering on anyone, and it’s just not attractive. Sorry Juilet, wear more outfits like this one please.

Lots of bands on Warped sell rubber bracelets for $5 with words on them like a song title, album title, or just the band’s name. And while it seems really egotistical to me, it’s actually quite common for band members to wear their own bracelets. Charities such as the breast cancer organization Keep-A-Breast also sell wristbands to raise money — Tay Jardine owns one of their “I Heart Boobies” bracelets. Of course there’s always the option of buying bracelets from Jac Vanek, who has a booth at Warped Tour, if you want to spend twice as much and have your money support a groupie rather than a charity or a band.

On Tour

Tay Jardine, Sierra Kusterbeck, and Ash Costello wearing their own bands' wristbands at Warped Tour 2010

• Tay Jardine wears We Are The In Crowd’s ‘Guaranteed to Disagree’ bracelet
• Sierra Kusterbeck wears VersaEmerge’s ‘Versa Vulture’ bracelet
• Ash Costello wears New Years Day’s ‘Let’s Get Dead’ bracelet

Online

You can buy band wristbands from Hot Topic, District Lines, Fueled by Ramen, or individual merch stores. The “I Heart Boobies” bracelets are available at Loser Kids. Jac Vanek has her own webstore.