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Glastonbury. Woodstock. Montreux. Monterey. Scroll through our boho bag collection, and the names read like a festival wishlist, and that's no accident. Each one borrows its name from a real festival with a real story, and once you know the history, the bag makes a lot more sense.
We didn't pick these names out of a hat. Somewhere in the design process, someone clocked that the free spirited, throw it all in, catch you later energy of a good bag is exactly the energy of a great festival. So the boho bags named after festivals in our range each carry a little of that spirit: the mud of Somerset, the fields of upstate New York, the jazz clubs of Lake Geneva, the California sunshine of 1967.
Here's where each name comes from, and what it says about the bag that carries it.
It's a small thing, naming a product after a festival rather than a colour or a season. But it does two jobs at once. It gives the bag a personality before you've even opened the strap, and it nods to the fact that boho style didn't come from a mood board. It came from actual fields, actual crowds, actual people working out how to carry everything they needed for three days without a suitcase in sight.
Four bags, four festivals, four very different moods:
Browse the full boho bag collection and you'll spot the family resemblance: handcrafted leather mixes, woven textures, and enough room for a weekend you didn't quite plan for.
The original Glastonbury Festival happened in 1970, when Michael and Jean Eavis opened up Worthy Farm in Somerset to around 1,500 people for the price of a pound a ticket. It has since grown into one of the biggest music events on the planet, with everyone from David Bowie to Beyoncé taking the Pyramid Stage, and proceeds still going to causes like Oxfam, Greenpeace and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
What hasn't changed in over fifty years is the mud, the wellies, and the sheer improvisation of packing for a weekend where the weather could go either way. Our Glastonbury handbag takes its cue from exactly that: handcrafted woven textures, made for a free spirit who's planning to dance and doesn't much mind where the day takes her.
Woodstock opened on 15 August 1969 on a 600 acre dairy farm in Bethel, New York. Organisers expected around 50,000 people. Over 400,000 turned up, the fences came down, and what was meant to be a ticketed event became a free one almost by accident. It remains the defining image of 1960s counterculture: fringe jackets, patchwork, and a crowd that had nowhere near enough tents between them.
Our Woodstock weekender takes its name seriously. It's the biggest bag in the collection, finished in multi patchwork detail, built for exactly that kind of trip: the one where you're not entirely sure how long you'll be away, or where you'll end up sleeping.
Montreux Jazz Festival is a different kind of festival altogether. Founded in 1967 by Claude Nobs and set between the Alps and Lake Geneva, it now draws close to 250,000 people across sixteen days, with more than 700 concerts (most of them free) and a reputation for legendary, unscripted jam sessions between artists who weren't even on the bill. Quincy Jones once said you can't describe it, you just have to experience it.
That's a more polished kind of bohemia: lakeside, elegant, a little jet-set. Our Montreux tote picks up on it with tasselled detail and an Aztec-inspired print, built to make a statement whether you're festival-bound or just heading out for the day.
Monterey Pop Festival ran for three days in June 1967, during California's Summer of Love, and it's fair to say modern festival culture starts here. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding and Ravi Shankar shared a bill with acts that weren't yet household names, in front of roughly 200,000 people. It set the template every festival since has followed, right down to the flower crowns and fringe waistcoats.
Our Monterey shoulder bag, in its handcrafted leather mix, is a small nod to where all of this really began: a field in California, and a weekend nobody there ever quite forgot.
Now you know the stories, picking your bag might come down to which festival you'd want at your own event: Glastonbury for the free spirits, Woodstock for the pack-everything travellers, Montreux for lakeside polish, Monterey for the West Coast sunshine seekers. All four are in stock and ready to shop in the boho bag collection.
Pair whichever one you choose with the sandals and wedges from our Beach Athletics range, and when the festival's over and your feet need a proper rest, our spa slippers are exactly what your Monday morning will be asking for.
Four festivals, four bags, one very good excuse to start planning your next trip.
