Tap Into Vogue and Taylor Swift’s Accessory of the Season With a Quick Trip to Goodwill

By Felicia Czochanski Bisaro

2026 has been full of fun fashion trends so far, but one in particular is catching the attention of fashionistas and non-fashionistas alike. At the end of January, Vogue put a stake in the ground and proclaimed sourdough bread, in particular, Taylor Swift’s sourdough bread, as the hottest accessory of the year. This captures the cultural shift toward a DIY mindset — whether it’s making crafts using secondhand materials or cooking and baking from scratch instead of buying premade foods. It’s now mainstream to do it yourself on your own terms, versus relying on purchasing something from a retail store that may not be exactly what you want.

Let’s have one caveat first: you’re not going to find a sourdough starter itself at Goodwill^®. You won’t find it at most grocery stores either. You can find those online, look up instructions for how to create your own from scratch or can do what I did and reach out to neighbors on a local Facebook group to see if anyone had some sourdough discard to spare!

Aside from the starter, there are some baking items you will need to kick off your homemade sourdough bread journey — and with them, in no time, you’ll have delicious bread as trendy as Taylor Swift’s!

I took a look through the home goods shelves at Goodwill to see what I could find. It seems like my store was well-stocked with all the bread baking essentials. The beauty of sourdough is that the only ingredients you need to make bread are sourdough starter, water, salt and flour — that’s it. So, once you have the baking tools you need for the bread, some of which I would bet you already have in your home, you’ll likely have everything you need.

Check out the list below if you’re just starting out making your own sourdough; after a quick trip to Goodwill, you should be ready to get started:

• Dutch oven, base and lid
• Glass jar (you might want a few to switch them out once in a while)
• Mixing bowl
• Food scale
• Measuring cups

Now, for an important question: what makes Taylor Swift’s sourdough so special (besides the obvious, of course)? Once you get to the step where your dough is going in the oven, that’s when you take a sharp bread cutting tool called a scorer, or a sharp knife, and cut into the dough in a creative way that helps the steam vent out throughout the loaf but also creates decorative shapes once it’s fully baked.

As you cut into the dough, you add a little bit of your own creative flair. There is so much inspiration online and in cookbooks that you can find, too. Once you get into the bread-baking groove, these loaves can make great gifts and party favors. Swifties will know that Taylor gives them out to her friends. Sourdough bread can be the gift that keeps on giving.