Even fictional bridesmaid dresses can be a nightmare — just ask Sarah Jessica Parker. The Sex and the City star is still holding a grudge against the beige Vera Wang dress her character, Carrie Bradshaw, had to wear to Charlotte York’s first wedding.
Kristin Davis, who played Charlotte, recently revealed on her podcast Are You a Charlotte? that Parker absolutely despised the dress from the season 3 episode 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' So much so, in fact, that she took matters into her own hands — literally.
"Sarah did not want to wear beige at Charlotte’s wedding," Davis recalled. And apparently, her frustration reached such a boiling point that she physically altered the dress herself. Sex and the City showrunner Michael Patrick King chimed in, adding,
"And then SJ goes and cuts up the Vera Wang dress. She hates it. She didn't wanna wear beige so much, she cut it up and started putting tartan pieces on it because Trey was wearing a kilt. I mean, it was so funny."
Davis, however, remained puzzled by Parker’s strong reaction. "She was out of her mind," she said, laughing. "At one point, she came to me and she was like, 'I don’t understand…' And I’m like, 'But, it’s Charlotte’s wedding. Of course, you’d be wearing beige — matching. I mean, I don’t understand what you don’t understand.'"
When Fashion Overrules Logic
While Parker never made peace with the dress, King admitted that he, too, had once resisted a wardrobe choice on the show — only to be proven wrong. He recalled his initial objections to the now-iconic Versace 'mille-feuille' dress Carrie wore in season 6 while waiting for Aleksandr Petrovsky in her Paris hotel room.
"[Costume designer Patricia Field] goes, 'This just came from Paris. It wants to be in the show.' And I said, ‘'How would [Carrie] get that there? It would be like a whole, like, three trunks just to get that [from New York to Paris].' And I gave her all the logical reasons why it wouldn’t be in there," King explained.
But then, reality struck. "I turned, and as I walked across the threshold, I just got hit with reality. And I thought, 'Yeah, it wants to be in the show.' And I came back and I said, 'Okay.'" His takeaway? "Sometimes wardrobe is better than logic. And so they’re still talking about mille-feuille."
The podcast episode also saw Davis and King reminiscing about Sex and the City, its two movies, and its revival series, And Just Like That. But one thing is clear: over two decades later, Parker is still not over that dress.
