9 ‘Sex and the City’ & ‘And Just Like That’ Fashion Fails
The costume designers of Sex and the City and the follow-up And Just Like That… take big swings, fashion-wise. And occasionally they strike out.
Granted, we like some controversial SATC get-ups. Samantha’s New York Dolls jumpsuit? Oddly, it works for us. Carrie’s Dior tee with the taffeta skirt? We’re all in favor. Her Madonna-styled outfit? Well, she is a material girl.
But the following looks we just can’t abide. Here are our picks for fashion fails from both shows, presented chronologically.
Carrie & Miranda’s picnic garb
Sex and the City’s second season hit us with a one-two punch in “The F*** Buddy” as the ladies meet for a picnic. Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) looks like she just left a childhood spent in the Alps, while Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) seems to have decided two head coverings are better than one.
Carrie’s hoedown ensemble
Even the Coyote Ugly dancers wouldn’t be caught in what Carrie wore to the Hamptons hoedown in Season 2’s “Twenty-Something Girls vs. Thirty-Something Women.” The snakeskin top, the skirt, the random armband — hey, maybe this was Carrie’s first rodeo.
Carrie’s tie-dye outfit
It’s a miracle the other diners in Season 3, Episode 15: “Hot Child in the City” could even hear one another, given how loud Carrie’s outfit is. That Chanel top is odd enough, but add the tie-dye pants, the bandana, and the hoop earrings, and we have quirkiness overload.
Samantha’s Chanel scarf
Speaking of luxury-brand misfires, let’s examine a rare misstep from Samantha, seen in Season 5’s “I Love a Charade.” As the Kim Cattrall character hosts a party in the Hamptons, she dons the most ostentatious scarf we’ve ever seen. Hey, can you tell it’s Chanel?
Carrie’s crocheted cap
We have to “knit”-pick, but we’re feeling crotchety about the crochet on Carrie’s head in Season 6’s “Catch-38.” In this scene, Carrie has a heart-to-heart with Petrovsky (Mikhail Baryshnikov), but we can’t focus on anything other than her mismatched fashion.
Miranda’s towering fur
Sex and the City caught flak for its fur use, and “Catch-38” is one of the worst offenders. Miranda wears a fur hat the approximate size and shape of an osprey nest. She’s lucky woodland critters didn’t take up residence as she made an emergency call to Carrie on her honeymoon.
Carrie’s glove and gingham combo
And Just Like That… we’re off to the races with the SATC spinoff. In Season 1’s “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,” Carrie wears a baggy gingham nightgown… with a babushka-style scarf… with bejeweled sunglasses… with… rubber cleaning globes? (Yes, yes, she was avoiding cigarette stench, but still.)
Aidan’s jacket
In Season 2’s “February 14,” Aidan (John Corbett) finally reappears… wearing a cinched, belted, stiff, overly-buttoned jacket. Vulture’s Rachel Handler put it best: “Aidan would never in one billion years buy this jacket or wear this jacket. He wouldn’t even have a paradigm for this jacket.”
Carrie’s giant gingham hat
Season 3’s premiere is titled “Outlook Good,” but the outlook is not good for this season’s fashion if this hat is any indication. Carrie looks like she’s being attacked by a hot air balloon — and we have more gingham! — but Parker told Entertainment Weekly she loved the hat. If you do, too, it can be yours for €450 (about $515).
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