What Not to Wear to a Concert

When dressing for concerts, the key is to make it look effortless and feel at ease enough to be able to sit, sway, dance, or headbang with abandon. Your get-up might depend on a few factors including the type of concert it is, the genre of the music mainly played and the venue. It is important when you're heading towards a concert to try and make sure your appearance isn't more offensive than the “original music” that the contemporary bands play. Like wearing tight pleather pants and a spiked collar to a Coldplay cover show.
Now for open-air concerts, it's advised to dress comfortably and with consideration for the weather. Headbanging in all black on a hot summer day is bound to send splashes of sweat to the people around you or maybe even to the band members if you're close enough. Though coming in contact with the sweat of some celebrity may be found desirable to some extremist fans, your sweat will be appreciated by no one (other than that creepy person who's been stalking you since fourth grade and is probably peering into your window through a telescope from an abandoned roof). Open toed sandals at a crowded outdoor concert is an open invitation for people to stamp on your toes so sneakers and shoes are encouraged.
The indoors allow more options for personal preference but a rock concert is not the place to show off your new lehenga. NO concert is. Leave the fotua where it belongs -- on the heap of clothes you intend to wear to a Band Lalon concert. However, if you're going to a classical music gig, feel free to sport a nice panjabi, kameez or sari. We know it's cold but please don't sport a jacket over your sari or kameez. Shawls work just fine. In this case, we can reluctantly overlook the panjabi-jeans fiasco with a painful amount of consideration. Yes, we can be nice. And remember, the panjabi-jeans combo ONLY works for James. You're not James. You can never be James.
For the heavy metal and hip hop concert goers, we know better than to ask you to not wear black or let your pants hang below your knees. But a nice T-shirt-jeans combo works well in any situation. It's usually advised to keep it casual and comfortable unless it's a really corporate fancy jazz thing. Or unless you're in a cult. In which case -- robes, masks and candles.