Snowboarders aren’t slaves to fashion – at least not in the same way as those diabolical people off Made in Chelsea or X Factor are – but if we’re honest about it, we do take note of what’s being worn on the scene at any given time.

This season it’s aztec print, or “ethno tat” as our deputy ed prefers to call it, reminiscent of the kind of crazy, multicoloured patterned clothing people end up buying on when they go travelling to Africa/Indonesia/India (delete as appropriate) and “find themselves”.

But strange as it might seem, this kind of thing is actually pretty “in” at the moment – so while you’ll see yoga-practicing, yoghurt-munching soul surfers wearing this sort of thing, you may also find park rats indulging their inner hippy too.

Here’s our selection of some of the finest examples.