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Taylor Swift Style Turns Ten 10×10: Introduction

In celebration of Taylor Swift Style turning 10 years old today — October 13, 2021 — I’ve undertaken the monumental soul search of going through the Taylor archives and selecting my top ten favourite moments from the following categories.

Awards, Events, Photoshoots, and Candids.*

As you can imagine, this was an incredibly difficult task.** But it’s all in celebration of ten amazing, heart-fulfilling years of documenting Taylor’s changing fashion. (My ‘favourites’ list is also one of the most commonly requested series/questions that I receive so consider this a two-birds-one-stone kind of deal).

To that end, I wanted to express to each and every one of you – regardless of when you came into the TSS fold – that I’m grateful you’re here and humbled by your kind support. TSS has meant so much to me over the last decade and it truly has changed and shaped my life.

Over the course of running this blog I: Graduated from university, moved into my first apartment, adopted a cat, and bought my first home. And through it all, this beautiful corner of the internet and my love of Taylor, Taylor’s music, and Taylor’s fashun have been a pillar of my life and connected me to so many people who feel the same way about those things.

So thank you all.

I hope you enjoy this list that I spent so much time walking down memory lane to create. And if you don’t enjoy it or your favourite isn’t there don’t @ me.*** It was a beautiful full circle moment for me to go back to some of these moments and even recall where I was when I created these posts and wrote my original commentary. I also took it as an excellent opportunity to look at outfits I’ve stared at many times over the last 10 years to try and gaze at them with fresh and more objective eyes.

And here’s to many another ten (or more)!

Warmly,
Sarah

Notes

*There are many stylish moments that fall between the cracks of these parameters, including things like interview appearances, performances, and fan meet and greets. But I only have so much time and ‘kill your darlings’ chutzpah to get through these categories. To further help, some definitions:

Award – A red carpet event where awards are handed out.

Event – A red carpet event that is not an award show.

Photoshoots – Professionally taken images featuring multiple looks for a spread in a publication (e.g. magazine, news outlet, album).

Candid – A street style event not taken en route to another scheduled appearance.

**Selecting only ten moments for each of these categories was a lesson in being ruthless. In order to be as ~scientific~ about it as possible, every single moment was chosen because of the following criteria:

1. I like it

2. There is not one single thing I would change about it. Including: Hair, makeup, accessories (Namely: Jewelry, bags, shoes).

3. It feels *special* in some way and has something charming, noteworthy, and iconic to it.

Please note there were many (many!) ((many!!)) (((many!!!))) outfits that were cut in order to make way for these Top 10. Once again: Perfection – IN MY EYES – was the name of the game. In order to be included, I had to feel that I wouldn’t change a thing. NOT ONE.

***Seriously, don’t come for me. Some of this hurt me as much as it probably hurts you. I tried, okay.