‘And Just Like That’ Style: Episode 3
Vanessa Friedman I think we have to talk about stolen handbag déjà vu. When Seema’s Birkin was taken, it sent me right down the rabbit hole to “Sex and the City,” Season 3, when Carrie’s Fendi Baguette was snatched — and then a very similar Baguette reappeared in this episode.
Jeremy Allen Once again, purse as plot point!
Madison Malone Kircher That Baguette popped up in Season 1, too!
VF Handbags are the Proustian madeleines of this show.
Louis Lucero II A yearning for the days of Giuliani’s New York? It seemed to be where this episode took place. And I don’t know what’s more implausible to me: the idea that a mugger in 2023 wouldn’t recognize a Birkin bag or that thousands of pedestrians over the course of two days wouldn’t.
VF Good point, Louis. How was that actually quite large Birkin just lying under shrubbery?
JA I was also struck by how Covid really became a plot point for the first time in this series — especially sartorially. Carrie, of course, puts her own twist on pandemic-era athleisure. In the first episode, she pairs an oversize New York Times sweatshirt with, well, nothing, and in this one, she wears a Monopoly sweatshirt with a semi-sheer tiered skirt, Barbiecore kitten heels and an Oy Vey mask for her faux bout with the virus.
Callie Holtermann I caught myself laughing a couple of times during this episode — sometimes with the characters and other times at them. Carrie faking Covid to get out of her obligations was funny. So was Seema’s Louis Vuitton logo-print mask.
Source: The New York Times
