Taylor Swift's stage fashion choices

The singer Taylor Swift is on her Red World Tour and says her signature performing style is "a classic top" and high-waisted shorts, because they're comfortable on stage and also look elegant.

She told People magazine: "My favourite look of the show is when I start out with black high waisted shorts, and lace Oxford shirt and sparkly red oxford shoes, and a black hat. It's definitely a look I've been obsessed with lately for performing, where you have a classic top tucked into high waisted shorts. It's fun to run around in.

"For performance, I'm not only looking for something that looks cool in front of 20,000 people but it's also about the functionality of it, can I run around in it? Can I throw my hair around in it?"

Taylor also said she's overhauled the look of her stage show, to make it less like a fairytale and more reflective of her age now she's 23.

She said: "This tour exists in a place that would exist in a city. It's much more a glammed up version of what I'd wear every day or a rocked up version of what I'd wear out at night or instead of during 'Love Story', the song where I used to have people dressed as princes and princesses, now they're dressed as broken toy dolls with keys sticking out the back of them.

"It's just different, a different shade of the way my mind works fashion wise, and in three years, I've evolved too."