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You only have to say the word “festival” to a British woman and she’ll be head to toe in paisley with a faded denim waistcoat, an armful of bead bracelets and a starsign necklace. The first jangle of a coin belt is like the first notes of the ice-cream van song: a nostalgia trip into half-remembered, hazy summers of the past. And then summer comes along, and fresh air and sunlight blast through our open windows and our inhibitions and we embrace that inner flower child, if only until the clock strikes back-to-school.

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