A $2,000 bridal get-up, $100 of body glitter, and $30 thrift store discoveries: We asked 11 people how much their Coachella outfits cost, and here's what they told us

The Coachella Music & Arts Festival takes place over two weekends in April at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California.
While Coachella is a music festival , it has long held a reputation as a place that social media influencers, celebrities, and regular attendees go to dress up in fashionable, colorful, or outrageous outfits .
We went to Coachella for the first time this year and decided to ask some well-dressed attendees how much their outfit cost. Surprisingly, even the best-dressed seemed to spend around $200-400 on their outfit.
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The Coachella Music & Arts Festival is a music festival in Indio, California, but it's arguably more famous for what happens off-stage.

There are the glitzy daytime pool parties and exclusive afterparties that double as entertainment-industry parties , the oh-so Instagrammable art pieces that dot the landscape, and the hordes of Orange County teenagers skipping school to drink .

For years, the festival has become known as ascene so distinct that The Daily Beast's Marlow Stern described it as a " celebration of music [that] has degenerated into a weird marriage of fashion and commerce." The weekend is such an event for social-media influencers, models, and celebrities that some have dubbed it the " Influencer Olympics ."

Those elements were certainly present when I headed to the festival for the first time earlier this month, but it was hardly an overwhelming part of my experience .

One thing I did notice: the colorful and, occasionally, wildly creative outfits that attendees wear each day. On Sunday of this year's festival, we walked around to find the best outfits and asked how much attendees spent to get them.

The answers were pretty surprising. Here's what we found:

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