There's a moment every festival season when you're standing in front of your wardrobe, trying to figure out what to wear. You want something that looks incredible in photos, survives a day of sun and sweat, stays in place while you're dancing until 2am, and still feels you.
If you're a pole dancer, you've already got the answer — and it's been hanging in your wardrobe this whole time.
Pole wear and festival fashion have more in common than most people realise. Both demand outfits that look bold, stay put, and move with your body. The difference is that pole wear is engineered for exactly that — while a lot of festival fashion just hopes for it. Here's the RARR edit of pieces that do double (sometimes triple) duty: from the studio to the stage.
Why Pole Wear Is Actually the Perfect Festival Outfit
Think about what a festival outfit needs to do. It needs to stay in place while you're moving, sweating, and dancing in a crowd. It needs to look great from every angle (because there will be photos). It needs to handle the Australian heat without going see-through or uncomfortable. And it needs to make you feel confident — the kind of confident that says I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be.
That's also the exact brief we design every RARR piece to hit.
Pole wear goes through things at training that most clothes will never face in a lifetime: inversions, spins, floorwork, grip. If a pair of shorts can stay in place while you're upside down on a pole, they can absolutely survive a crowd at Splendour or Beyond the Valley. And the materials we use? Engineered to move, breathe, and hold their shape — not the fast fashion lycra that goes see-through the second you sweat, or the cheap festival bodysuit that loses its elastic by end of day one.
The RARR Festival Crossover Edit
Scrunch Bum Shorts
This is the move. Our scrunch bum shorts are the piece we hear about most from customers who wear them well outside the studio — to the beach, to brunch, and yes, to festivals and raves across Australia.
Pair them with a mesh top or tie a shirt at the waist and you've got an outfit that looks effortless but is doing a lot of work underneath. The scrunch detail means they sit perfectly on every body shape, and the waistband won't roll, dig, or give up on you halfway through the day. Go bold with the colour. Festivals are one of the few places where "too much" genuinely isn't a thing.
Booty Shorts
Sleek, minimal, works with everything. Booty shorts are the festival blank canvas — they layer beautifully under a sheer skirt, look great with thigh-high boots, or hold their own with just a crop top and good energy.
The difference with ours is the fit. We design for real thighs and real hips, so there's no gaping, no rolling, no adjusting every five minutes. You put them on and forget about them — which is exactly what you want when you're three songs deep into a set and completely in your element.
Bodysuits and Tops
A bodysuit that stays tucked is worth its weight in gold at a festival. No shirt riding up, no top half untucking itself at inconvenient moments, no adjusting required all day.
Our bodysuits are designed to stay put through pole training — which means they will absolutely survive a day of dancing, climbing on friends' shoulders, and being caught in a crowd. Dress them up with a skirt or shorts, or just go for it on their own. Either way, you're covered (in the best sense).
How to Build Your Festival Look
The formula that works every time: bold RARR bottom, something layered on top that you can tie, carry, or ditch when it heats up.
Try scrunch shorts + oversized mesh tee knotted at the waist + chunky sandals. Or booty shorts + sheer wrap skirt + bodysuit underneath. Bodysuit + denim cut-offs + boots for something with more edge. These are rave outfit ideas that work from the afternoon set all the way through to the last act.
Accessories do a lot of the heavy lifting at festivals. A good pair of sunglasses, some jewellery that moves with you, a crossbody that sits flat against your body (not a big tote that bangs into everyone) and you're sorted. Keep it simple, keep it functional, and let the outfit do the talking.
The key is not to overthink it. You already know how to dress for movement. You already know what fits your body and what makes you feel good. Trust that.
The Real Difference With Pole Wear at Festivals
We hear from customers all the time who've made the switch from generic festival fashion to wearing their pole wear out — and the thing they always say is: I wish I'd done this sooner.
No more adjusting. No more hoping the waistband holds. No more photos where you look uncomfortable because you actually are. When your clothes are built for movement, everything feels different. You stand differently. You move differently. That energy shows up in every photo and every moment.
Festival and pole wear crossing over isn't a trend. It's just logic. The same qualities that make something great on the pole — it stays in place, it moves with you, it's made for a real body — make it great anywhere you want to feel that good.
This festival season, don't buy something new just because it says "festival" on the tag. Check what's already in your kit bag. There's a good chance it's already the best outfit in the room.
Shop the Festival Crossover Edit
Browse our festival and pole wear collection or check out our booty shorts — made in Australia, designed for real bodies, built to move.
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