Amanda Wilde recreates Taylor Swift’s Speak Now dress from the Eras Tour.Photo:John Shearer/Getty; Amanda Wilde
John Shearer/Getty; Amanda Wilde
One woman got extra Swifty for her niece’s holiday present this year.
OnTikTok, Amanda Wilde explained how after her niece Adalyn, 10, requested aTaylor SwiftAmerican Girl doll for the holidays, she endeavored to create one herself.
“When your niece wants a Taylor Doll for Christmas, you make it happen 👏🏼 🪩✨” she captioned the video.
The outfits ranged from Swift’s goldFearlessdress to herSpeak Nowballgown to a black top forMidnights.It took Wilde around 2 weeks to complete the collection. Speaking to PEOPLE Wilde says she worked on the project each night after she got home from work.
“The gold “Fearless” inspired outfit took the most time with attaching the individual tassels,” she says. “I’d say that the hardest part of creating it all, outside of physically making the clothes, was finding good materials to use.”
“I thrifted 90% of what you see. I found the box at a local resale shop for $15 and then thrifted different items of clothing for the outfits,” she continues. “I cut and loosely measured them around my niece’s knock-off American Girl Doll to make sure they fit well.”
“I loved making the sequin ‘Lover’ inspired dress,” she continues. “It pulled the whole project together. I actually found that material on the 23rd at a local craft store and hurried home to turn it into the masterpiece that this box is before gifting it to her on Christmas Day. That is the only raw material I used, the rest were thrifted clothes!”
Amanda Wilde made her 10-year-old niece replicas of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour costumes for her doll.Amanda Wilde
Amanda Wilde
Since posting the TikTok, the video has gone viral with more than 861,000 views. The comment section has also been filled with compliments from Swifties.
“OK BUT THIS IS AMAZING!!!” one user commented.
“My daughter has formally declared you as her aunt. Congrats. 😂” someone else wrote.
“Girl I see an Etsy store in your future let us know when you’re open for orders 😜” another comment reads. Another TikTok user said: “The speak now dress was so recognizable!!!💕💕💕💕.”
Other Swifties are seeking details from Wilde on how she brought this vision to light. One person commented on the video: “Excuse me??? STEP BY STEP VID NOW.”
Amanda Wilde’s doll-version of the Midnights outfit.Amanda Wilde
Looking back on the moment Wilde says her niece’s reaction to the gift was priceless.
“I wish I would have filmed it,” Wilde says. “I had also posted Snapchat Stories of me making the outfits along the way, my niece Adalyn had seen what I was creating. I tricked her into thinking that it was for her cousin, Ellie, who is six. Ellie also loves Taylor (I mean who doesn’t!) but Adalyn is a true Swiftie.”
She adds: “She and I bonded all year over Taylor. She knew every song and sang her heart out at the movie when we saw it in theaters. She was so convinced that this wasn’t for her that on Christmas Day when we exchanged gifts, she called Ellie back into the room because I ‘forgot’ to give her the last gift.”
“She was shocked when I handed it to her instead of Ellie and had to reassure her multiple times that it was actually for her. It was so sweet,” Wilde adds.
Amanda Wilde makes replica of Taylor Swift’s Fearless dress.Amanda Wilde
When Swift returned to the stage on March 17 for her record-breaking three-hour and 13-minuteErastour, shepaid tribute to her past 10 albumswith custom outfits.
Amanda Wilde makes replica of Speak Now dress.Amanda Wilde
When designer Nicole Chang of couture labelNicole + Feliciafirst sawTaylor Swiftwearing the brand’s custom gold ball gown on theU.S. Eras Tour, during theSpeak Nowportion on opening night in Arizona, her initial reaction was to scream with glee.
“It was really crazy,” the designer and creative director, who co-founded her brand with sister Felicia Chang, toldPEOPLEexclusively.
“I remember we were just really nervous because we didn’t know where or when she’d wear them,” Chang said. But when concert videos hit social media, she was over the moon. “I was so happy," she said.
source: people.com
