www.cheatsheet.com: Sex and the City was known for its stunning display of fashion. The series followed Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), a fashionista and writer living her best life in New York City. The series chronicled her life and experiences along with her three best girlfriends, Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis).
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The article offers a fascinating insight into the challenges faced by costume designers when creating looks for male characters in popular TV show. Patricia Field, the show's costume designer, discusses the unique considerations and limitations involved in creating male looks and how she approached the task with creativity and ingenuity. It reminds us of the importance of creativity and ingenuity in this field and underscores the complexities involved in creating looks that are both aesthetically pleasing and narratively effective.
One of the most interesting aspects of the article is the way it highlights the gendered expectations and stereotypes that can limit male costume design options. Field discusses how men's clothing is often perceived as more functional and utilitarian, which can make it difficult to incorporate elements of style and individuality. She also talks about the need to balance the expectations of the show's male characters with the show's overall aesthetic and the desires of the female characters who were the show's main focus.
I personally love Sex in the City very much. Patricia Field is a Costume designer that I greatly look up to just because at the time Sex in the City was one of the first shows that I watched when I knew that I wanted to be a costume designer. I think it was really interesting how she talked about, the difference between costuming males and females. Because I do think especially doing high school theater there’s this box that men are put into. I do think she succeeded in the way of designing these costumes because she was able to really break the man out of the boxes and break the stereotype a little bit. I felt like even if it was just a suit and a tie. I also really liked how they talked about her connection with Sarah Jessica Parker. Her costumes for her were so incredible and were amazing.
It’s interesting to see this subject being talked about, because it’s a very real thing. When it comes to shows (or movies, plays, productions) like Sex and the City, dressing men is a lot different from dressing women. Men’s everyday “fashion” is, as costume designer Patricia Field put it, much like a uniform. Men living in cishet society have a very small roster of socially acceptable clothes they can choose from, and costume designers have to put themselves into that box to dress them. However, there are opportunities opened up when you take this social box into consideration. Any stray from the norm is an intentional choice. Maybe the character would wear a fashionable scarf? Or would they consider that too feminine? Maybe the clothes they put on their body are merely a barrier to separate their skin from the air. The existence of societal norms when it comes to clothes are a huge factor when it it comes to realism in costume design.
The time culturally in America that Sex and the City was in its height of being a television show didn’t allow Patricia Field to be too outside of the box for what the men wore. The late 90s and early 2000s was still a very gender binary time, and a big stereotype of the time was that men who dressed outside of the polo shirt or suit and tie were LGBTQ+ which in that time in America was an even more sensitive subject that many were still not open to accepting. Sex and the City however was known to be a fashion explorer when it came to the women in the show as Carrie was a trend setter. I liked the addition of the Manalo backstory in which the power of product placement in a show as popular as Sex and the City is displayed via Field’s relationship to that one shoe store.
I’ve always felt that men wear in general is very lackluster, and doesn’t have much appeal or diversity in terms of what they wear, and the overall designs that they are given. I, along with the designer for sex, and the city also feel bad for the man because the clothing options that they are giving really is a one dimensional uniform based look. And as a customer designer, it’s hard to work with that, especially on shows such as sex and the city. Also, some men are open to trying new clothing outside of the ones that are given. Adding on another level of difficulty to dressing people because you don’t want anyone to feel uncomfortable. You also don’t want anything to be too flashy or overdone but to minimal. So I feel as a person who wants to be a customers honor that I will start looking more into where I can to to bring more life and design to men’s wear.
I have always adored the TV series, sex, and the city, and this year I was able to finally watch it all the way through the fashion, and that is stunning and iconic and really brought forward true style to the every day audience, which I thought was just truly fabulous . This article goes into a couple different topics. The first is how Patricia field got the job she originally worked with Sarah Jessica Parker on a different project and then Sarah, Jessica Parker recommended her for sex and the city. I think that this collaboration made this show what it needed to become. this article also talks about how it was difficult for Patricia to dress the men for the show. Definitely see how this would be a little annoying to somebody is there too, and who wants to take fashion risks but when the men are very much is used to certain luxe and styles, and don’t really want to stray from that. It may be difficult to get your job done the way you hoped.
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