Travis Kelce dressed like a “gym teacher” to propose to Taylor Swift
The mega couple announced their engagement on social media with the caption, "Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married"
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TRAVIS KELCE IS NOW an engaged man.
The Kansas City Chiefs tight end knelt to his girlfriend of two years, mega pop star Taylor Swift, in an enchanted garden-like set-up. Kelce pulled out an eight-to-ten-carat diamond ring, custom-designed by Artifex Fine Jewellery. The couple announced their engagement on Tuesday to their joint 288.8 million followers on Instagram with a post captioned, “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.”
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Like an off-duty gym teacher – or a professional athlete, for that matter – Kelce’s proposal outfit consisted of a navy cable-knit polo, white chino shorts, and brown suede loafers worn, crucially, sans socks. Meanwhile, Swift wore a striped cotton Ralph Lauren dress, Louis Vuitton heeled sandals, and a discontinued Cartier Santos Demoiselle watch in yellow gold with pavé diamonds, matching her new ring.
Compared to what we’ve seen of the 35-year-old’s style so far, the fit is a stark shift to conservative good taste. We’ve previously seen Kelce in the kind of hyped-up grails you’d see on your least favourite male zeitgeist podcaster (oh, wait). In February, he stepped out in a custom ochre Amiri suit, its wide shoulders and lapels instead belonging to a ’70s disco than Super Bowl LIX. Elsewhere, breezy party shirts were his go-to when accompanying Swift to press events and dinner dates.
While knit polos are having their moment amongst men looking to step outside their stock-standard cotton piqué, Kelce’s cable knit hugs his built physique in more defined ways than one. The open collar, too, breaks up the bulky appearance of broad shoulders while showing off a bit of chest.
As routine headline makers, Kelce offers another: his sockless loafers. The current look amongst other It boys, think Paul Mescal and Jacob Elordi, is white socks with loafers. But it’s here where Kelce differs from these Hollywood men – the look is better suited for an English teacher. A good friend of mine, who’s a tailor, once remarked, “Unless you’re at a wedding on the Amalfi coast and you’re in a beautiful linen suit with an aperol spritz in one hand and an oyster in the other . . . please wear socks.”
In the end, Swift didn’t get her all-American Kennedy or her London boy. She got her gym teacher.
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