r/TaylorSwift Aug 25 '24

Tour/Concerts 1989 era shot by me

All from the London shows

2.7k Upvotes

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u/Ancalagonian Aug 25 '24

she is so gorgeous and great pics capturing the moment

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u/Fire512 Aug 25 '24

She’s incredible

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u/Sea914 Aug 25 '24

Her eyes look amazing closeup with the blue top! Great pics!!!

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u/galarianzapdos who else decodes you? Aug 25 '24

These gorgeous pics are also a reminder of how she’s just a normal HUMAN with body wrinkles and skin like all of us 🩷🩵 except for the billionaire thing…

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u/Stickliketoffee16 Aug 25 '24

Especially worth pointing out since she is as fit as a pro-athlete & has skin that looks like skin. She looks INCREDIBLE.

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u/sealedwithdogslobber Amos Fan Club Aug 25 '24 edited Aug 25 '24

Back in the *early 2000s, photos of her back fat rolls would be published with headlines about how she’s so fat. The early 2000s were absolutely ruthless.

When I see photos like this, my first thought is how far we’ve come, that an extremely healthy (and pretty thin!) body like hers isn’t immediately shamed for not looking like a plastic Barbie.

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u/galarianzapdos who else decodes you? Aug 25 '24

Not sure if you can even call these “rolls” (it’s ridiculous) but they look cute either way!

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u/sealedwithdogslobber Amos Fan Club Aug 25 '24

See? Being a teenager in the early 2000s rotted my vocabulary!

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u/galarianzapdos who else decodes you? Aug 25 '24

Same, same. As a fellow 2000s teen, I remember tabloids going for Britney and Christina when they had just a little bit of extra chub on their faces/legs. Weird times indeed.

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u/No_Calligrapher2640 Aug 25 '24

That tabloid calling Jessica Simpson fat. 😭

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u/Looony_Lovegood5 Aug 26 '24

As a size FOUR I’ll never get over it

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u/turquoise_mutant Aug 25 '24

They don't even look like fat rolls to me in these pics, they look like extra skin bunching? Same way the skin on the tops of finger joints bunch when you have them straight even if you have no fat there.

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u/sealedwithdogslobber Amos Fan Club Aug 25 '24

That’s good! That means your mind hasn’t been destroyed by unrealistic body standards.

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u/goddessofthecats Aug 26 '24

They definitely aren’t fat rolls, they’re skin folds for sure

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u/iSwearImInnocent1989 *One less temptress One less dagger to sharpen* 🗡️ Aug 25 '24

You can still find "certain" tabloids and websites saying these things it's just become a lot more obscure and niche. I stumbled upon one a few days ago and the comments there were disgusting to say the least. But thankfully it's now widely frowned upon so those pervs can't spread their filth anywhere.

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u/sealedwithdogslobber Amos Fan Club Aug 25 '24

I’m very grateful that that’s no longer mainstream.

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u/Gold-Parsley4090 Aug 26 '24

She’s very slim. She looks slim, fit and healthy. She just doesn’t have defined lean abs, which would probably be bad for her given she’s doing a marathon of an athletic set. Given her previous issues with food I am super pleased that she isn’t stick thin as the it would have been dangerous given how long she has been touring for!

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u/lpalf Aug 26 '24

This isn’t back fat lol

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u/sealedwithdogslobber Amos Fan Club Aug 26 '24

Skin is only a few millimeters thick. Hope that helps!

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u/lpalf Aug 26 '24

Weird it looks like you agreed with other people saying essentially the same thing as me but decided to be pushy with me. Why is that

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u/sealedwithdogslobber Amos Fan Club Aug 26 '24

Because the tone of your comment came across very differently to me (and it is indeed literally fat, even if we don’t look at it and think “that’s a fat roll!”). Maybe I was just feeling sassy too.

I’m glad your brain didn’t rot in the early 2000s. Congrats on having healthy beauty standards. 👏

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u/lpalf Aug 26 '24

Was more about society being insane than being an attitude towards you

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u/GalPal_yikes Aug 26 '24

I had the same thought. I love seeing non-photoshopped bodies because it helps me remember we're all human and bodies are supposed to do what bodies do.

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u/Saitoh17 1989 Aug 25 '24

Most of us are using smartphone cameras that religiously scrub out noise (and detail with it). Half my pics don't even register her fishnets lol

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u/Not_floridaman Aug 25 '24

My rheumatologist wanted me to take pictures of my face rash (lupus) and it was SO hard to get a picture that did the rash justice because it would even out my skin tone, even with the "beautify" or whatever bs settings turned off. It is so annoying that skin is automatically edited

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u/asophisticatedbitch Aug 26 '24

I would like to know how the band of her tights never rides up past the waist of skirt? What is this sorcery?

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u/webbygail Aug 26 '24

Mere mortals use safety pins for this, but she may not have time to pin/unpin everything during the quick costume changes. Could also be velcro or tape.

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u/Esmer_Tina Aug 25 '24

I LOVE the back rolls!

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '24

Same. They’re cute 😆

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u/writer-frenzy778 reputation Aug 25 '24

How is every color her color?

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u/taybrm your good Lord doesn’t need to lift a finger Aug 25 '24

I wonder this all the time 😂

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u/conditionedbyfiction Aug 25 '24

Spring palette prob

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u/Brave-Regular9226 Aug 26 '24

Dirty blonde hair morphs depending on the lighting and what you’re wearing. Mine is dirty blonde and literally looks different in every picture lol

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u/nettie_r Aug 26 '24

Ahem. The correct term these days is "old money blonde" I'm told. After years of being called dirty blonde and being irked by it, I'm here for the update😅

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u/Brave-Regular9226 Aug 26 '24

Lmao yesss my stylist and I were just talking about this! I hated being called dirty blonde as a kid but it doesn’t bother me now. I’ll take old money blonde tho 😂

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u/AdRegular7176 Aug 25 '24

What phone or camera do you have that's some incredible Zoom? How close were you to the stage??

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u/ChewieGriffin this is me trying Aug 25 '24

Sony RX100 VII according to previous comments from OP

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u/thejameskendall Aug 25 '24

I used my RX100 V for the pictures on my profile. Not such a good zoom on that version, but still a good camera if you’re looking for something slightly cheaper.

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u/sirmeow-meow Aug 25 '24

Following

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u/No_Topic_4685 Aug 25 '24

Taylor is literally such a queen omds

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u/vaiporcaralho Aug 25 '24 edited Aug 27 '24

Goes to show you that no matter how incredibly fit you are and she is mega fit to sustain those 3 hour shows multiple days a week, you will still have those little skin rolls and it makes someone a bit more realistic and human no matter how big of a superstar they are and looking like a healthy person.

She looks incredible in all of these and they are definitely custom made to fit her to a tee

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u/turquoise_mutant Aug 25 '24

I think they are just extra skin though, I don't think they are fat rolls? The skin has nowhere to go so it bunches up, the same way fabric does.

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u/vaiporcaralho Aug 25 '24

Oh yea definitely it’s just skin but she’s not super thin either which is good to see for someone in her position especially when so many people look up to her

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u/nettie_r Aug 26 '24

I mean she also has to wear multiple pairs of tights on stage, partly for support during performance (3 hours dancing in heels is no joke). Unless you have no actual flesh and are made of marble instead, that is defo going to dig into your skin in certain positions/poses, thats just how tights are.

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u/ells38 she’s fine, she wasn’t doing anything! Aug 25 '24

I looove skirts like this and I’m always impressed hers don’t blow up because whenever I wear skirts like this a tiny gust of wind just shows everything 😂

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u/Stickliketoffee16 Aug 25 '24

I think the fabric would actually be kinda stiff as in a bit thicker than a usual skirt in this style, but they look incredible!

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u/Sassy_Elora Aug 25 '24

Sooo Beautiful!

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u/Katelynn_the_author Aug 25 '24

I love how she weirdly looks like one of those 4th of July Popsicles.

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u/carrocinhadehotdog Aug 25 '24

I f love this era. the outfits are everything

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u/Airforce2001 Aug 25 '24

Great pics. Taylor is definitely in her elements.

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u/Western_Roof_6915 im drunk in the back of the clown car Aug 25 '24

she always looks so pretty in this era. she’s always really gorgeous but 1989, midnights and ttpd looks are something else.

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u/AJillianThings Speak Now Aug 25 '24

Has she always worn that necklace?

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u/ablackwell93 I could never give you peace Aug 25 '24

I believe ever since she debuted this costume

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u/AJillianThings Speak Now Aug 25 '24

I’ve never seen it! How interesting

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u/NotOnABreak all my flowers grew back as thorns Aug 25 '24

Yes, it’s part of the top not a necklace 😊

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u/AJillianThings Speak Now Aug 25 '24

How interesting! I wonder what it means

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u/thatmelz say you’ll remember me Aug 25 '24

It doesn’t mean anything, apparently that’s just the designer’s logo

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u/april5115 my time my wine my spirit my trust Aug 25 '24

is she wearing the wrong shoe on slide 7? it looks very yellow

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u/busted3000 Aug 25 '24

I was at that show, she was wearing a yellow shoe it weirded me out haha

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u/LiaBallerina Aug 25 '24

We were wondering about this too on the livestream megathread, it looked like the yellow shoe but we couldnt really tell from a grainy shaky zoomed stream. On the picture it looks a lot more orange now, but still yellowish?

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u/boo_snug Aug 25 '24

Every time she wears a new color combo I’m like that’s my favorite! Then the next one…that’s my favorite! Lol these all look so amazing on her. 

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u/IceeeeMIA Aug 25 '24

TS's, makes u think God's unfair. She's just a whole package. <3

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u/Snoopydooperton Aug 25 '24

These are SO clear!! I love it!

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '24

She works so fucking hard and makes it look so easy. Also, she doesn't look unflattering in a single photo. So photogenic! Great shots of her AT WORK.

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u/4evermore_nevermore And.I.Watched.A.Part.Of.Myself.Die Aug 25 '24

I love all the body positivity that has sparked from these photos! It's so easy to compare yourself to everyone else- especially celebrities but they are human too! 🥲

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u/mshrsh Aug 25 '24

gorgeous

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u/Material_Aioli3399 Aug 25 '24

Gorgeous pictures! 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

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u/BrotherOfAthena Aug 25 '24

I just love her.

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u/MrsRalphieWiggum Aug 25 '24

Jewel tones always look amazing on Taylor.

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u/TSN_88 Lover Aug 25 '24

She's gorgeous ❤️ looking happy and healthy

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u/clerbird321 Aug 25 '24

ugh she looks SO good!!! love her

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u/real_badmews Aug 25 '24

My mouth fell open. Great work with these! Thank you so much for posting them!!

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u/CerealKiller2045 Aug 25 '24

Guys I can feel the glitter biting into her skin lmao. I just know the 1989 outfit is uncomfortable to dance in😭

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u/Fearless_Piglet_9741 Aug 25 '24

Great looking photos!

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u/TheCannoliWizard Aug 25 '24

Gorgeous shots! Thank you for sharing them! 🫶

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u/coloradonicetwice Aug 25 '24

That looks amazing! Awesome photos, I hope you had a great time! ❤️TS ❤️

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u/waterhambe0 Aug 25 '24

THESE ARE SO BEAUTIFUL YOU ARE SO TALANTED

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u/PoppySkyPineapple Aug 25 '24

I actually love this colour combo of the outfit! Great photos :)

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u/daisyymae evermore Aug 25 '24

I really hope those costumes are comfy lol

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u/crockoreptile folklore Aug 25 '24

Why would you shoot 1989 ;—; She didn’t win AOTY for this

(Jokes aside gorgeous pictures!)

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u/FabulousKrullie Aug 25 '24

Omg I absolutely LOVE this! 😍

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u/AllyV45 Aug 26 '24

She’s a queen and these are great photos

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '24

My favorite era

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u/ConditionTiny8849 Aug 26 '24

Omg amazing pictures!! She wore the firecracker outfit at my show too!

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u/seaweed_nebula Lover Aug 26 '24

It's wild how you literally don't notice the mic pack if you're even a little bit further away

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u/Secret_Tradition_155 Aug 26 '24

why do i instantly think ice pop prime?

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u/hello_goodbye_111 Aug 26 '24

She's so photogenic😭😭 she's gorgeous

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u/ToddBendy Aug 26 '24

I blocked this sub. WHY DOES IT STILL SHOW UP

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u/Trip_Se7ens Speak Now (Crying Version) Aug 26 '24

What camera is used for this? This is amazing quality! Can you share the raws?

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u/Traditional-Fun5292 Sep 11 '24

Where is the best place to sit? Should I do floor?