Swifties trade friendship bracelets, buy merch during wait for Taylor Swift show

Kayla Neuhaus shows off a handful of friendship bracelets she made to trade and share at Friday’s show. Swifties make friendship bracelets because of a lyric on a track off Swift’s most recent album. (Catherine Odom/Sun-Times)

Kayla Neuhaus stayed up until 4:30 a.m. making friendship bracelets to swap and share at Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour.

Like many of her fellow Swifties, Neuhaus was embracing the preferred bonding ritual of the tour’s guests: finding beads with meaning to the singer’s audience and stringing them into bracelets to give away.