This text comprises spoilers for Episode 8 of the second season of “And Simply Like That …”
Within the new episode of “And Simply Like That …,” Charlotte York Goldenblatt (Kristin Davis) is returning to work as a gallerina after years of staying at residence along with her household.
Anxious about how she is going to look in a brand new gown, she begins consuming bone broth and squeezes into shapewear. Past Charlotte, the brand new episode supplies a handful of examples of workplace put on, and the identities, and vulnerabilities, that may include these outfits.
Forward of Episode 8, members of The New York Instances’s Kinds desk mentioned the undergarments, pantsuits and purses within the newest installment of the sequence.
Vanessa Friedman I had many robust emotions about this episode, the primary prompted by the opening scene of Carrie and Aidan in mattress. It’s my perennial bugaboo about this present: Who instantly re-dons their underwire bra after intercourse? Nobody.
Callie Holtermann It’s one of many nice lies of contemporary tv!
VF I really really feel underwear is a theme of this episode, given Charlotte’s free-the-menopausal-stomach Spanx subplot, by which she buys a brand new gown for her new job at an artwork gallery and is given a posh about her poochy stomach by the (20-something) saleswoman. It conjures up her to eat solely bone broth for per week and to don two pairs of compression undergarments directly for her first day at work — a choice she rapidly, fortunately regrets.
Katie Van Syckle Sure, she dramatically strips off her Spanx, throws them away after which takes one pair out of the rubbish.
CH The best way that Charlotte’s insecurities had been alleviated felt somewhat tidy to me.
VF What everybody ought to have been speaking about was what it meant for a grown girl within the glory of center age to be prancing round in a pink Peter Pan-collared gown.
CH Maybe the thought is that Charlotte, at any age, can nonetheless do Charlotte? I laughed and winced when the salesperson introduced out two black, shapeless attire meant to hide Charlotte’s physique altogether.
Jeremy Allen Or perhaps all this shapewear is supposed to assist (sorry, I needed to!) the episode’s narrative thread of vulnerability: Carrie with Aidan, Seema with Carrie, Charlotte with herself.
VF I do know I’ve harped on this level earlier than, however a part of maturing is having your style mature, too — and one in every of my frustrations is that for many of the most important characters, that doesn’t appear to have occurred. They’re caught of their signature 30-something model even now. Mature doesn’t imply frumpy or schmatta, nevertheless it does imply extra clear and cozy about who you might be, versus nostalgic for who you had been.
JA Talking of comfy, Carrie is swaddled in all types of flowy, diaphanous coats, capes and cardigans on this episode. I felt like these costume decisions had been meant to convey how comfy she lastly is with Aidan, whether or not or not we purchase it.
VF I really felt like that completely weird sweater she wore within the first brunch scene, which featured a knit tank and matching knit arm heaters, was a harbinger of relationship confusion to return.
JA Or maybe only a harbinger of extra off-kilter knits to return? I did benefit from the suggestion of a matchy-matchy midcentury sweater set as if run via a Carrie Bradshaw filter.
CH Maybe the actual purpose for all of Carrie’s plaid was to foreshadow her rebound with Aidan, a flannel shirt of a person.
KVS I began to play a recreation on this episode the place I appeared for plaid in each scene, and apart from a number of, it was just about at all times there someplace.
JA True! Che and Aidan’s plaid meet-cute (he’s in a plaid button-up, they’re in a plaid coat) is perhaps essentially the most memorable plaid second within the sequence so far. As characters, they each embody the earnestness that plaid can convey when it’s not chopped up and remixed in the best way that everybody else has been sporting it.
CH I did assume this was an excellent episode for the conundrum that’s post-pandemic office apparel.
Particularly, the generational divides — we see Miranda present as much as her internship at Human Rights Watch in a burgundy swimsuit and meet youthful co-workers who’re sporting sweaters and denims.
VF Although, that is also concerning the divide between company work and public-sector work.
CH Good level! In some ways, Miranda is dressed like a (properly tailor-made) fish out of water.
VF Which she is — and never simply as an older intern. Her wardrobe is left over from her Huge Agency days.
JA Completely. After which there’s Seema, holding courtroom in a sky-high workplace adorned in the identical luxe neutrals and golds as her wardrobe, with a Louis Vuitton purse perched prominently on her desk.
VF That Louis Vuitton product placement alternative was fairly putting. The emblem was completely framed. It was extra like a bag commercial than an workplace scene.
KVS It was additionally a chance for a dose of males’s put on on the workplace. Seema’s colleague wore a blue plaid swimsuit and blue polka-dot tie.
JA Talking of males’s put on, can we discuss Giuseppe, Anthony’s youthful love curiosity, and his chocolate bomber jacket? One other military-inspired piece of outerwear ushering in a tentative new relationship, à la Aidan’s Belstaff. I’m curious to see the place that goes.
VF Effectively, it appears extra pure on him than on Aidan, I might say.
KVS We additionally obtained our nod to New York this week, however this time on Che, who appeared in a Yankees shirt with a large white coronary heart.
JA I have to say, seeing Che in Carrie’s closet sporting something having to do with sports activities felt dissonant in a reasonably scrumptious approach.
KVS What are our predictions for subsequent week? Charlotte in pants on the gallery?
VF Carrie within the nation? She’s going to Aidan’s farmhouse. Although maybe we’ll solely hear concerning the go to afterward. Both approach, I predict extra plaid.
JA A certainty: Anthony and Giuseppe cuddling in matching plaid pajamas.
CH Lisa Todd Wexley carried two designer luggage concurrently on this episode — a flex maybe solely she may pull off. Subsequent episode, I’m hoping for 3.
Vanessa Friedman, Katie Van Syckle, Jeremy Allen and Callie Holtermann contributed reporting.
