In season three, episode 15 of the original Sex and the City series, Carrie Bradshaw makes the unusual decision to date a man who a) lives with his parents and b) runs a comic-book store. She spends most of the 30 minutes smoking weed and having water fights, as if regressing back to her high-school days. Samantha Jones, meanwhile, plans a bat mitzvah for a precious pre-teen, and Miranda Hobbs gets braces. It’s an episode that bears its theme lightly: “Are we 34 going on 13?”
It’s also the same episode in which Carrie Bradshaw makes the unusual decision to wear a ’90s Chanel blouse backwards. “I’m one of at least three girls in the British Vogue office who would cite her color-clashing capri pants/backwards Chanel blouse/bandana ensemble as an all-time favorite,” said British Vogue’s digital director Kerry McDermott back in June 2023. “It’s a classic case of Carrie’s bold fashion tipping over into cosplay territory (dungarees and plaid for her fish-out-of-water jaunts upstate with Aidan; stripes, tweed and a pearl-trimmed chapeau for her arrival in Paris).” (See the photos of the original outfit here.)
Our heroine has been forced to grow up since then—the death of a husband and several important friendships will do that to a person—which is a development made obvious in the most recent batch of images to have surfaced from the set of And Just Like That. See: the reemergence of that same bishop-sleeved Chanel blouse notably worn the correct way around. Sarah Jessica Parker had been costumed in that archival relic with a drop-waisted skirt and strappy heels while struggling to work the simple piece of tech that is an iPhone. (Some things do not change.)
This article first appeared on British Vogue.
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