Carrie's SATC Clothes: Don't Try This At Home

I wonder, is Patricia Field's fashion influence, from film to real life,
my problem with SATC?
Liz Jones in the Daily Mail explains it all
Those clothes are criminal! Ridiculous hats and frilly tutus - Why Sex and the City's Carrie is wanted by the fashion police
Thanks to Sex And The City, women no longer dress as men at work, but instead wear colourful, girlie prints. The character Carrie Bradshaw was a woman who dressed to please herself, not to make her attractive to men.
Patricia Field, the Oscar-nominated costume designer, gave us vintage, utility and eccentric layering. She brought back the full skirt, the prom dress, the eighties (even the batwing, cropped sweatshirt) and stilettos.

But the problems started when we began to take literally what a fictional character wore to make a point, drive a scene or promote a belly laugh. We began to buy £400 pairs of shoes and £800 handbags with no thought of wardrobe space or our credit rating. Very few of us can walk in those shoes. Carrie looked effortless in bondage shoe boots, corsets, black net and gold lame, while the rest of us ended up resembling over-the-hill hookers.

Go ahead and read the rest of the article which gives us the take down on translating the Carrie Bradshaw signature look to real life with everything from over the knee socks to tutus to arm warmers to fascinators.

TUTUS Carrie wore a tutu in the opening credits of the TV show, and it reappeared in the first film when she packs up her wardrobe. It is very Eighties, and works on Carrie given her ballerina body, but wearing one I felt like one of those Disney ice-skating hippos.

What works for a film character with the frame of a 10 year old, is most likely not going to work for the rest of us.

Sex And The City 2 vs Ab Fab

Not being a fan of chic flicks in general and Sex And The City in particular, I won't be rushing out to see this film. Even with the 1970s vibe clothes and Wendy's fabulous Cleopatra earrings, I will probably wait till this comes out on netflix.

The whole idea of the SATC women off to Morocco reminds of one of my favorite episodes of AB FAB when Patsy and Eddie go off to Morocco and Saffy gets left behind or sold into the white slave trade or something like that.



I kind of wish that the SATC women would just get left in Morocco and never come back.
Don't hate me.

Sex And The City - Oh So Fugly

Sometimes the truth is ugly and sometimes it's just fugly.

I have to admit that I was never a fan of SATC. I saw a few shows but never found the characters interesting enough, let alone sympathetic enough to become a fan.

So why did I bother to see the movie. It was part curiosity to find out what all the hype was about and of course to see the fashions. Some might just call it a desire for a little clothes porn.

Whatever the reason it was a waste of a lovely California evening.

I'm not going to go on and on about the silly plot and shallowness of the characters. But I will tell you that the most of the clothes were horrible. I didn't even like the bags and shoes! (Seriously, whatever they paid Kim Cattrall, it wasn't enough for the unflattering outfits that she had to wear. No wonder there were so many pre-release rumors about catfights between Kim Cattrall and SJP. )

Check out Slate.com

Fashion Roadkill When Did Carrie Bradshaw Become A Label Whore?

And don't even get me started on the jewlery.....