Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
The bra every bra-fitter wants you to know about
telegraph.co.ukAfter the pandemic, a pregnancy and fluctuating weight, I didn’t have a clue about my size, only that I needed unfussy underwired bras in neutral colours that I could wear under everything, every day.I was in good hands.
My fitter, Halima, who guessed my correct bra size on the basis of a mere glance at my chest, brought me a selection of different styles – balcony, full cup, plunge – but it wasn’t until she was walking me to the cashier with my selection that she pointed out what looked like a basic crop top. “Have you ever tried a non-wired bra?” she asked. “We [bra fitters] all wore these during the pandemic.”As someone who has been every cup size from my current 34D to an F, I’ve always felt I needed proper scaffolding – and that means underwires.
During the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, when women were ditching their bras with an enthusiasm not seen since the 1960s, I remained faithful to my pretty-yet-trusty Dora Larsen underwired styles.
Yet even the Office for National Statistics has traded the traditional bra for the sports version in its list of 700 products used to calculate the rate of inflation.So while experience has taught me to be sceptical, I also wanted to believe the hype about non-wired bralettes and crop tops that offer the same support as an underwired design. “I honestly forget I’m wearing a bra,” Halima told me.
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