Back to School Special 2010

Sentences to a Swift Success



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Our goal in this brand new feature is to offer you the best advice possible for when you go back to school. We want you to go into your new school year confident and ready to succeed. While our site's main purpose is to help visitors dress like Taylor, we also encourage being unique, and dressing in what's right for you. Here is some of Taylor's, our friend's, and our advice for you when school starts up. Not all of the sentences featured below are fashion related. Good luck with your new school year! Thank you to everyone who contributed a piece of advice! <3

with love, from the staff of Dress Like Taylor!


  • "If you want to try a new look, try pairing one of your signature items with something fresh, new and unique." - emily, owner.

  • "This year, try dressing to impress yourself, not that guy that you've been eyeing up, or the girls you've been trying to impress." - emily, owner.

  • "Keep things simple. Not sure if you can pull off a look Taylor wears? Try something just a little bit similar." - nina, matchmaker.

  • "Fashion is all about you. Don't feel comfortable? Don't wear it." - hollie, matchmaker.

  • "Actions speak louder than clothes." - hollie, matchmaker.

  • "Confidence makes you more beautiful than clothes ever could." - hollie, matchmaker.

    with love, from friends of Dress Like Taylor Swift!


  • "Try mixing things up like adding a fun scarf to your favorite outfit." - hilary, kiss and tell fashion site.

  • "Going back to school is all about being confident, its not what you wear its how you wear it." - hilary, kiss and tell fashion site.

  • "For the first day you don't have to go over the top just be yourself and dress how you feel comfortable." - hilary, kiss and tell fashion site.

  • "Going back to school is about being yourself, no matter how much your friends and peers might pressure you to be someone else. Dress to express the person you are and have fun doing it!" - kat, portrait magazine

  • "If you like your style, don't try to change it to please anybody else - you have a right to feel confident in the clothes you choose." - avee, jordyn love

  • "Make the most of this school year. Whether that's by enjoying social events, or pushing those grades up, push yourself and try something different. Don't be self conscious, just go ahead and enjoy yourself." - darcy, darcy's twitter

  • "Don't be afraid to get out of your comfort zone and feel free to express yourself with items that you really love. Respect yourself and others. You can do it!" - laurie, laurie's flickr.

  • "Incoming freshman to high school....trust me, these years will fly by so fast. Make the best of them, but make sure you keep your grades up. Go out at least once a week to de-stress. (: You may think these four years are going to drag by, but they FLY. Before you know it, you'll be out of here!" - natalie, natalie's twitter

  • "Fashion: A loose dress with a cardigan with a skinny belt to pull it all together is amazing. Another combo I like is a striped v-neck and a cardigan, with a belt to pull it together. It goes good with jeans. (: Also...WEAR VANS OR CONVERSE WITH DRESSES! It's awesome, trust me. <3" - natalie, natalie's twitter

    with love, from Taylor!


  • "This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change."

  • "If you're lucky enough to be different from everybody else, don't change."

  • "There's more to life than dating the boy on the football team."

  • "No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind."

  • "FEARLESS is walking into your freshmen year of high school at fifteen."

  • "You only get so many firsts, every one is a blessing."

  • "I remember seeing girls crying in the bathroom every Monday about what they did at a party that weekend. I never wanted to be that girl."
  • "But it's important to be comfortable with who you are and go natural once in awhile. It's really something to let someone in and see you completely vulnerable."

  • "At some point you have to forget about grudges because they only hurt."

  • "Sometimes [finding new friends] is the best thing about dating. I've met so many friends through guys that I've dated. And now, the guys are gone but the girls are still around."

  • "With [a rumor] that is so obviously not true, but is damaging, you should definitely address it. If someone is out there saying something, and you think it's really going to damage everything that you've tried to build and stand for, then you've got to put a stop to it. But there are a lot of rumors out there that you just have to ignore."

  • "I set goals that are just a little bit out of reach, but not totally out of reach."

  • "Some days you're just not confident, whether you have a platinum record or not -- you read a bad review, or somebody has said something on a message board about you, and some days you believe it. And it's those days where I just have to recognize that it's one person and they don't know me."

  • "What I've learned is not to change who you are, because eventually you're going to run out of new things to become."

  • "I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol."