Swifty was all dressed up but had to go slow

A teenage fan was forced to make a slow journey to a Taylor Swift concert after getting dressed for the occasion.

Ellen Siegert, 19, from Hopton, Norfolk, created her own version of a long red, white and blue dress worn by Swift using two bed sheets.

She took three hours to travel 17 miles from a hotel to Wembley Stadium after negotiating London Underground escalators and being surrounded by excited fellow fans.

"The dress created a real stir," said Ms Siegert's father Steve. "It certainly wasn't a swift journey!"

Ms Siegert, a fan for a decade, saw Swift - who was joined on stage by Ed Sheeran - for the first time on Thursday with her father, mother Jane, and a friend.

They stayed in a hotel in Stratford, east London, and made their way to Wembley on the Tube.

Mr Siegert said they left at about 14:30 BST and arrived at about 17:30.

He said the walk from the Wembley Underground station to the stadium took two hours because so many people stopped to admire his daughter's dress.

"We had to walk through a shopping centre, then go down to the Tube at Stratford," he said.

"Ellen had to lift the dress up as she went down the escalators.

"It must have taken two hours to walk up Olympic Way after we got off the Tube at Wembley.

"Everyone was stopping to admire the dress or take photographs.

"Her photo appeared on media outlets worldwide."

Ms Siegert told BBC Radio Norfolk: "It was a humbling experience getting from our hotel to the Tube.

"I was really concerned that getting on to the Tube would be a real problem.

"But I could thankfully pop the skirt over my shoulder - the big skirt at the back.

"It wasn't too bad at all - I didn't get annoyed with it at any point."

She said she "absolutely loved" the walk up Olympic Way and described seeing Swift, and Sheeran - who was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, and raised in Framlingham, Suffolk - perform as "insanely incredible".

The teenager, who has been diagnosed with ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis), has her own crochet business.

She said she began crocheting five years ago as a "therapeutic way" of keeping her mind occupied, especially when exhausted.

She has created hundreds of mini crochet characters, including musicians and TV stars.

Her father said she was "now busy making mini Taylor & Ed Sheeran dolls".

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