Critically Kind takes on Taylor's fashion
Favourite Outfits of 2019: Taylor Swift Style
Award – American Music Awards
… And to absolutely no one’s surprise, a green red carpet outfit made it onto the end of year list.
You all knew this was coming.
There will be no explanation there will only be TAYLOR SWIFT IN GREEN.
Favourite Outfits of 2019: Taylor Swift Style
Award – American Music Awards
… And to absolutely no one’s surprise, a green red carpet outfit made it onto the end of year list.
You all knew this was coming.
There will be no explanation there will only be TAYLOR SWIFT IN GREEN.
Favourite Outfits of 2019: Taylor Swift Style
Award – MTV Video Music Awards
In making a choice between Taylor’s two incredibly similar printed suit Versace moments from 2019, the clincher was the shoes. And I am simply not one to turn down a pair of OTK boots.
The hits of black, the restraint on pattern, and the green (!!!) earrings all also deserve shoutouts as reasons for my choosing the MTV VMAs lewk over the Teen Choice Awards. It altogether felt like a more polished and mature outing (which makes sense given the other award show was literally packaged for teenagers).
Favourite Outfits of 2019: Taylor Swift Style
Award – MTV Video Music Awards
In making a choice between Taylor’s two incredibly similar printed suit Versace moments from 2019, the clincher was the shoes. And I am simply not one to turn down a pair of OTK boots.
The hits of black, the restraint on pattern, and the green (!!!) earrings all also deserve shoutouts as reasons for my choosing the MTV VMAs lewk over the Teen Choice Awards. It altogether felt like a more polished and mature outing (which makes sense given the other award show was literally packaged for teenagers).
Favourite Outfits of 2019: Taylor Swift Style
It’s funny writing this intro and reflecting on last year’s (and even the year before that) and the one constant: I wish I had more material to work with.
Last year I had predicted a new album would be unleashed upon us and with it, hopefully, an onslaught of promotional imagery and outings akin to the great New York Fashion Takeover we were gifted during the 1989 Era. In looking back, I don’t think we quite hit that mark.
To me, this era was Taylor’s most fashionably inconsistent. There was almost a marriage between the pastel rainbows and summer festival scenery Taylor wanted to embody on Lover with the edgy OTK boots and dark palette of reputation — plus a string of fantastic menswear outfits.
I noted last year that the juxtaposition of snake imagery with sparkly kaleidoscopic dresses was the perfect representation of the two combating narratives on reputation: The perceived image the public saw weighed against the privately held love story that was unfolding in her quiet reality. With Lover we’ve seen many battling images. The spillover of reputation’s snake colliding with the butterfly of Lover ultimately crashed into the aesthetic of a businesswoman seeking to establish herself as an icon not just of the year but of the decade. We were met with sharply tailored two piece suits and blazers as she openly discussed the sexism and toxicity of the industry she has experienced as a young female to a successful grown artist — owning her work, her imagery, and the legacy she has built. It’s an incredibly appropriate end to a decade.
TSS won’t quite be hitting a decade of documenting Taylor’s style (that’s in 2021!) but, as always, I want to thank anyone who has ever liked, reblogged, commented, messaged, and as of a few months ago supported the Taylor Swift Style Patreon. Your words, your dollars, your silent contribution to this community is more than I could have ever fathomed and I’ll spend many decades feeling so grateful I ever had the opportunity to write intros like this.
With that.
Let’s get started.
Favourite Outfits of 2019: Taylor Swift Style
It’s funny writing this intro and reflecting on last year’s (and even the year before that) and the one constant: I wish I had more material to work with.
Last year I had predicted a new album would be unleashed upon us and with it, hopefully, an onslaught of promotional imagery and outings akin to the great New York Fashion Takeover we were gifted during the 1989 Era. In looking back, I don’t think we quite hit that mark.
To me, this era was Taylor’s most fashionably inconsistent. There was almost a marriage between the pastel rainbows and summer festival scenery Taylor wanted to embody on Lover with the edgy OTK boots and dark palette of reputation — plus a string of fantastic menswear outfits.
I noted last year that the juxtaposition of snake imagery with sparkly kaleidoscopic dresses was the perfect representation of the two combating narratives on reputation: The perceived image the public saw weighed against the privately held love story that was unfolding in her quiet reality. With Lover we’ve seen many battling images. The spillover of reputation’s snake colliding with the butterfly of Lover ultimately crashed into the aesthetic of a businesswoman seeking to establish herself as an icon not just of the year but of the decade. We were met with sharply tailored two piece suits and blazers as she openly discussed the sexism and toxicity of the industry she has experienced as a young female to a successful grown artist — owning her work, her imagery, and the legacy she has built. It’s an incredibly appropriate end to a decade.
TSS won’t quite be hitting a decade of documenting Taylor’s style (that’s in 2021!) but, as always, I want to thank anyone who has ever liked, reblogged, commented, messaged, and as of a few months ago supported the Taylor Swift Style Patreon. Your words, your dollars, your silent contribution to this community is more than I could have ever fathomed and I’ll spend many decades feeling so grateful I ever had the opportunity to write intros like this.
With that.
Let’s get started.
While Taylor has had a history of going short and mini at the AMAs (just look at last year’s disco Balmain ensemble for reference) given that Taylor will be receiving the incredibly prestigious Artist of the Decade, it was my thought that she would take the opportunity and go serious with a full-length moment.
My choices aimed to strike a balance between the (albeit inconsistent) aesthetic of the Lover era with choices that still honour and celebrate Taylor’s evolution in style over the last decade.
I hope I got it.
Here we go!
What do you think of my choices? Do you have a favourite or a particular designer you hope Taylor will wear for the show?
While Taylor has had a history of going short and mini at the AMAs (just look at last year’s disco Balmain ensemble for reference) given that Taylor will be receiving the incredibly prestigious Artist of the Decade, it was my thought that she would take the opportunity and go serious with a full-length moment.
My choices aimed to strike a balance between the (albeit inconsistent) aesthetic of the Lover era with choices that still honour and celebrate Taylor’s evolution in style over the last decade.
I hope I got it.
Here we go!
What do you think of my choices? Do you have a favourite or a particular designer you hope Taylor will wear for the show?
(TL;DR: I made a Patreon with many different exclusive content options (first access to predictions posts, lyric analysis, etc). But primarily: It is the best place to go for personal styling requests or if you have a hankering to support TSS in a monetary way [be still my heart]. It be here.)
If you’ve been following along for any length of time, you know that this space has evolved from simple questions about Taylor’s style.
As TSS became an archive for Taylor’s fashion over the last 13 (!!!) years, the most common question I would get is:
“Where is x, y, z post?”
“I love this dress Taylor wore in the Speak Now era. Did you ever post it?”These are some of my favourite questions as it tests my knowledge of the TSS database. I will never tire of fetching those posts for you (and it also poses a constant challenge to me of how can I make the site even easier for you, as TSSers, to navigate).
But over time, as our relationship inevitably deepened — so too did your questions:
“What do you think of the outfit?”
“Do you think there’s symbolism in a, b, c?”
“She’s been wearing this brand a lot lately. Why do you think that is?”It never once occurred to me that people would want to hear from me, the singular human who runs this blog. It was — and continues to be — the greatest compliment.
But then you guys took it one step further. You made it personal:
“I fell in love with a skirt and I bought it. But now I don’t know what to do! How should I wear it with the rest of my clothes?”
“I love the latest athleisure trend. How would you suggest a normal person wear it without looking like a Hadid try hard?”
“I’m attending a winter wedding and have no idea what to wear! Where can I get an affordable wedding guest dress?”
“I have no idea what colours or silhouettes work for me. What clothing styles do you think I should wear?”Not only have we gotten to the point of friendship where we so deeply care about each other’s opinions on our most favourite of subjects (Taylor), you’ve invited me into your lives. Your real lives. And you seemingly trust me with that of sacred importance: your closet.
I can’t think of a greater honour.
But I also couldn’t think of something more stressful or (eventually) time consuming with the number of overwhelmingly wonderful requests that came in for personal styling. In addition to balancing all the other demands of this blog (and frankly, my IRL life).
Many of you suggested this: a Patreon.
I never thought we’d be here.
With a full-time job and TSS continuing to grow as a full-time passion project, I thought this might be a way of meeting in the middle.
Where TSSers get the opportunity to ask all the styling questions you want, support TSS in a new monetary way (likes, reblogs, and clicks still mean something, but if you’re a keener this is now an option), and of course for me to offer some more exclusive and long-form goodies that needed a home (Lover Track By Track analysis, anyone?).
Thank you for supporting TSS in all the ways you have over the years. The messages, the likes, the reblogs, the clicks, the silent admiration or following from afar. In equal measures, they all mean so so so much.
This Patreon isn’t a requirement, but an additional option of support and a service I hope you can understand why I’d like to be compensated for.
Thank you.
From the bottom of this fashun bloggers little heart.
– Sarah
To support the TSS Patreon click here.
To give feedback (positive or negative) on the TSS Patreon, style, music, fashun trends, or whether pineapples belong on pizza head to @taylorswiftstylequestions. I look forward to hearing your opinions on all of those things — and more.
xx
The first TSS Patreon post has gone live! It’s available at the $8 “TSS EXCLUSIVES” tier.
What’s Included:
(TL;DR: I made a Patreon with many different exclusive content options (first access to predictions posts, lyric analysis, etc). But primarily: It is the best place to go for personal styling requests or if you have a hankering to support TSS in a monetary way [be still my heart]. It be here.)
If you’ve been following along for any length of time, you know that this space has evolved from simple questions about Taylor’s style.
As TSS became an archive for Taylor’s fashion over the last 13 (!!!) years, the most common question I would get is:
“Where is x, y, z post?”
“I love this dress Taylor wore in the Speak Now era. Did you ever post it?”These are some of my favourite questions as it tests my knowledge of the TSS database. I will never tire of fetching those posts for you (and it also poses a constant challenge to me of how can I make the site even easier for you, as TSSers, to navigate).
But over time, as our relationship inevitably deepened — so too did your questions:
“What do you think of the outfit?”
“Do you think there’s symbolism in a, b, c?”
“She’s been wearing this brand a lot lately. Why do you think that is?”It never once occurred to me that people would want to hear from me, the singular human who runs this blog. It was — and continues to be — the greatest compliment.
But then you guys took it one step further. You made it personal:
“I fell in love with a skirt and I bought it. But now I don’t know what to do! How should I wear it with the rest of my clothes?”
“I love the latest athleisure trend. How would you suggest a normal person wear it without looking like a Hadid try hard?”
“I’m attending a winter wedding and have no idea what to wear! Where can I get an affordable wedding guest dress?”
“I have no idea what colours or silhouettes work for me. What clothing styles do you think I should wear?”Not only have we gotten to the point of friendship where we so deeply care about each other’s opinions on our most favourite of subjects (Taylor), you’ve invited me into your lives. Your real lives. And you seemingly trust me with that of sacred importance: your closet.
I can’t think of a greater honour.
But I also couldn’t think of something more stressful or (eventually) time consuming with the number of overwhelmingly wonderful requests that came in for personal styling. In addition to balancing all the other demands of this blog (and frankly, my IRL life).
Many of you suggested this: a Patreon.
I never thought we’d be here.
With a full-time job and TSS continuing to grow as a full-time passion project, I thought this might be a way of meeting in the middle.
Where TSSers get the opportunity to ask all the styling questions you want, support TSS in a new monetary way (likes, reblogs, and clicks still mean something, but if you’re a keener this is now an option), and of course for me to offer some more exclusive and long-form goodies that needed a home (Lover Track By Track analysis, anyone?).
Thank you for supporting TSS in all the ways you have over the years. The messages, the likes, the reblogs, the clicks, the silent admiration or following from afar. In equal measures, they all mean so so so much.
This Patreon isn’t a requirement, but an additional option of support and a service I hope you can understand why I’d like to be compensated for.
Thank you.
From the bottom of this fashun bloggers little heart.
– Sarah
To support the TSS Patreon click here.
To give feedback (positive or negative) on the TSS Patreon, style, music, fashun trends, or whether pineapples belong on pizza head to @taylorswiftstylequestions. I look forward to hearing your opinions on all of those things — and more.
xx
The first TSS Patreon post has gone live! It’s available at the $8 “TSS EXCLUSIVES” tier.
What’s Included:
Taylor Swift Style 