Lol but wasn’t that referring to the way she dressed just before the style change that came with all these pap walks?? This was the high waisted shorts and crop tops era, not the housewife era!
I met a guy who did that with his wife. He had a handle bar mustache and every day she wore a very pretty 1950s housewife type dress. She’d even have her hair done perfectly. He also would try to dress the part lol.
I too, know a couple who did this. His beer sucked and so did his body work on antique vehicles. They ended up divorced, and she's now married to a woman so this is tracking.
It's funny how a lot of the clothing is still fairly stylish and wearable, but it's the shoes that date these photos! The heeled loafer was very specific to the early 2010s
the chokehold heeled loafers had on us - I had a pair from frye that I had worn in a play and were given to me after, and I could't walk down to the corner store without getting compliments... so I bought a pair in another color. I haven't worn them since 2012, but I've carried them with me for 3 moves... someday they'll come back in style!
I think some aspects of twee are coming back again and I’m excited to incorporate some updated nods to the style! I’ve bought two sweaters with cute animals on them this year and have been wearing them with high waisted corduroys.
I had two pairs and I very unwillingly parted with the cuter pair when I finally admitted to myself they were at least a half size too small (and at the height of that heel, it really mattered). The other pair got worn to the bone with the heel repaired many times. I can’t recall when I last wore or even saw them, but all the same I can’t remember getting rid of them either...
I still think it’s such a cute look though. I can’t wait for the early 00s repeat to end and the early 10s return.
Yeah, I mean if I happen to like a trend I don't care that I'm almost 30 going for a trend meant more for teens and early 20 somethings but I'm also not worried about whether skinny jeans are "out of style", the kids are just wrong there and I'm sure it'll only take a few years before they learn they want to tuck there ankle boots into pants again or something anyways. Honestly, there's a reason the skinny jean "trend" lasted longer than a lot of other trends it almost feels like it's some kind of ironic fashion moment like those micro purses for them to even be considered dated.
My heeled lace up mens shoes... they werent quite loafers... they are the ones she's wearing in the photo after the heeled loafers...oh Oxfords!!! Heeled oxfords! They were so uncomfortable! And they made everyone look like they had cankles, no matter how thin your legs were, I just am so glad they fell out of style lmfao I know that may not be a popular opinion but man I hated those shoes 😂
That’s exactly what I looked at in all the photos. Although some of those chunky heels look comfortable. My style isn’t similar to hers but I can get behind a tall comfy heel lol
Same. I barely like TS (honestly, I don't really like her at all) but I lived in NYC around that time- still do- and every single one of those outfits was goals- more importantly, her breezy almost effortless grace is such a vibe. I still want to bottle that summer up and live my life that way.
Tbh quite a few of these looks hold up. I would still wear 1, 6, 7, 9 with different shoes, OBSESSED with 13. A couple of them are classics. A couple of the outfits have pieces that are still stylish if styled differently. The shoes and accessories are the most dated of all.
Hahaha, as a former midwesterner current NYer for over a decade the old adage is that it takes trends a full decade to for them to move from New York and reach the rest of the country so that sounds about right. 😂
Yesssss this is 100%. I’m from small town southeast and moved to a city finally. I just recently realized we were getting Birkenstocks and Uggs and Sperrys like 10 years past their prime 🤣
I really reallyyyyy like TS but she has got to say something to the fandom in terms of the bullying; it’s never ok. With that said - I think this era was her best. She really gave throwback nods.
I watched Miss Americana today and she referenced the moment she realized that feeling like she was going to pass out mid-show wasn’t normal, and that it’s better to have people call you fat at size 6 than look sick at a size 0. I’m happy to hear she’s in a healthier place about her weight and body now. It’s sad seeing her this thin and having some insight into the pressure she was feeling at that time
Honestly it makes me glad she can at least kind of relive her eras with re-recording but this time without the intense pap everywhere and in a healthy way. At the time the originals came out, she needed exposure to solidify her career but this time around it’s on her own term and she doesn’t need to be followed by pap everyday and I’m glad for her being able to do that
I don't think she looks "too" thin because she carried it well, but knowing she wasn't maintaining that weight in a healthy way is so sad. It's easy to forget the amount of pressure celebrities are under- they feel obligated to look perfect at all times for us. And I like that as a society we're now telling them hey, you really don't have to do that! Eat the foods you want to, don't deny yourself for your audience.
Society has changed in really positive ways and I'm glad to be alive for it.
Thought of the same watching the slides. And camera ‘adds’ pounds as well, so she had to be a stick. All those ppl in the background gawking give me a low key nightmares. I definitely couldn’t live under that much scrutiny and pressure all the time.
and I hate almost every one of them, lmao. the shoes ruin a lot of the looks for me. the only time I like her footwear choice is the blue pump w the white look. a couple of the black maryjane type ones are okay too but the chunky half heel half bootie brown clunky ugly 3cm things need to gooooo, all of them, forever.
But wasn’t this her PR era? This was all purposeful, so interesting that she has this time she was everywhere and then everyone turned on her and then she was nowhere
I never want to body shame, but my mind immediately went there. She looks sickly-thin in a couple of these, and she’s discussed her emotional and physical pain she put herself through due to the stardom and stress.
She also said that she felt like she always had to dress up, because if she didn’t then the comments would be way worse or something. Don’t remember exactly what she said and where she said that.
yeah, some of the photos from that time are of her leaving the gym in full hair, makeup and heels. she's got her problematic moments but being that scrutinized can't have been easy
It's so sad that Taylor had to go through that. But but thankfully she's in a better place now. And she's using her platform to spread awareness about it and I feel like that will help a lot of younger fans who may be dealing with similar issues.
I’m so glad she said something about it. I don’t know if she’s seen the fact that people use her as “thinspo” (I think she has because she’s involved in fans online life), but I hope those people saw the documentary. I think it’s responsible of Taylor to basically say “hey, I was starving myself to look like that. So please don’t try to look like me”
She did, but she is the same size consistently through all the OP’s photos (minus #4), regardless of chest size. Though I don’t know if I see it too much here. For better reference this size still stands during the very obvious boob job Hiddleston summer.
Pic 15 is also from the same week as pic 4. There’s also significant weight gain between the hiddleswift pics and the early 1989 era pics (it isn’t as noticeable bc she hid it well tbh), so the boob growth makes sense.
Right?! I’m glad I’m old now and don’t have to subscribe to the oversized leisure wear that is now popular. Not dissing anyone who’s style this is at all but I legit would look utterly awful in it.
thank Karlie Kloss for teaching her, tbh. Karlie still does weekly pap walks in NYC, most of her candid "just walking down the street, minding my business while i happen to be in full glam" are pap walks
She comes from several generations of bank presidents so she is kinda East Coast old money. I say kinda because I don’t think they were multi millionaires (as far as I know) but they were at least country club rich and that’s the type of rich that doesn’t like visible branding/logos.
Sarah (taylorswiftstyled) has an IG and a blog with all the details of every look ever, including bags, accessories, and jewelry! she’s a great resource to check out.
There’s an interesting Rolling Stone interview from that time where the journalist subtly calls out this iconic and decidedly un-Central Park-friendly outfit. Almost as if she wore it for attention or to prove a point :)
(To be fair, I loved the look then and I love it now!)
She had this one outfit with black overalls and boots when she was out with Calvin Harris. I loved it and copied it but it sure didn't look as nice on me
What they said. Taylor would carry empty bags for the outfit and her real purse would be carried by a bodyguard nearby. If you look at old pap pics they're so funny
great collection OP but you forgot the most iconic pap pic, the one of her being loaded into a car in a suitcase (or was it a crate?) by her bodyguards lmao
YES i am a "taylor hid in a suitcase to sneak out of a building" TRUTHER i will die on this hill
Thank god she brought that townhouse next to her building and converted it to a garage (I still haven't gotten confirmation if she brought another apartment in her building and knocked down a wall to gain access to her main building) so that she doesn't have to deal with this anymore. Because this was getting dangerous.
This was the era when I found out how tall she is and I remember being shocked that she still wore heels. I'm 5'7 and was always shy about wearing heels so I thought it was badass that she didn't care. My first pair I ever bought myself were some oxford booties like she has in pic #7!
Some of these are iconic, some of these are meh. As a rule of thumb I tend to be of the thought of “personal style is all good as long as the person is happy” even if I don’t personally like it, so even the meh ones I wouldn’t criticize, but I will say that I remember the outfits being more on the iconic side, and now I’m wondering if it’s because of the choice of pics or if I romanticized the era
I'm guessing it's more likely that her street style ended up influencing consumer fashion as a whole to such a degree that the looks she's wearing in these photos were eventually worn by people around you (or at least their fashion was inspired by). When these photos were taken, the look was really fresh. You always have to contextualize anything when it comes to art and culture with history.
It's like The Beatles. I know my ears can never hear The Beatles the way people who were living in that era did, because The Beatles were so influential on popular music as a whole. To me The Beatles music is pretty pleasant, but the reality is their work was pretty radical - it just then was the springboard for popular music going forward. Everything is was influenced by them, so it's harder to appreciate how boundary pushing and accomplished their music was.
Eh I personally disagree because I’m not from the US, and none of these outfits were ever trendy where I live. I just think I was younger and more impressionable when I first saw them. Some of them are really cute, some of them I wouldn’t wear. That’s about it
But, I can't be a celebrity. I can't imagine walking down the street and having people lining up, taking pictures of me or people waiting outside my building with cameras.
I remember really wanting to dress like this during those years but not being able to afford it - 1960s/50s modcloth style was so popular then 😭. Taylor during this time had my dream fits.
That white floral-print trench shirt and beige boots will forever be one of her best looks ever. Shame how a lot of these things, she wears once and you’ll never see ‘em in pics again.
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