The Best SATC Shoe Moments – for Sandra Hagelstam
To celebrate the return of the SATC crew to our screens, our favourite shoe moments from the iconic series. Originally published by Sandra Hagelstam on her blog 5 Inch and Up.
In case you didn’t get the memo, the SATC crew are back on our screens. And Just Like That is the reboot nobody really asked for, but that no fashion enthusiast can resist. With one notable exception (Samantha, we miss you), everyone’s favourite well-heeled Manhattanites are setting the style agenda via the small screen once again.
Shoes and SATC go hand in hand. Fashion was and is the lifeblood of the show, with writers and OG costume designer Patricia Field creating an iconic world where ovens are filled with sweaters and people are proposed to via the medium of Manolo Blahnik. The shoes even get their own storylines, with one episode titled A Woman’s Right to Shoes. Jimmy Choo and Manolo Blahnik are basically the 5th and 6th members of the SATC gang. It was – and remains – the stuff of pure fiction. So leave your disbelief at the door (like Carrie left her Manolos) and indulge in the fantasy. To commemorate the SATC reboot, lose yourself in some of our favourite shoe moments from the franchise.
THE PROPOSAL
Mr Big’s ill-fated first proposal to Carrie with a pair of blue Manolo Hangisis will go down in fashion history. Sure, things started to go south from there (until the engagement was cemented with a big black diamond), but when Big got down on one knee in the walk-in-wardrobe of dreams, we all swooned.
THE FERRY DASH
‘Wait, I lost my Choo!’ Carrie utters this iconic line after running to catch the Staten Island Ferry home following a date. Fortunately, she recovers the feathered Jimmy Choo slingback, though she does miss the boat.
THE MANOLO MUGGING
Carrie is held at gunpoint, and the thief takes not only her baguette, but her strappy red Manolos, too. ‘Please, sir, they’re my favourite pair!’ she implores, but the ruthless robber ignores her pleas and makes off with the high-fashion loot.
SAMANTHA AND THE COW
Samantha’s most notable shoe moments often involve her taking everything off, but leaving her stilettoes on. Then there’s the time she milks a cow in a pair of pink strappy sandals. A close-up of her stilettoed feet tip-toeing across a hay-strewn floor in front of a hunky farmer culminates with her asking if “anything else around here needs milking?” SATC innuendo gold.
THE CATWALK CATASTROPHE
Carrie takes a tumble on the runway in a pair of sky-high heels. It was the chance of a lifetime – to walk for Dolce and Gabbana. Unfortunately, it ends with Carrie sprawled across the runway resembling fashion roadkill and Heidi Klum stepping over her with all the poise of the seasoned professional she is. Brutal.
THE WOMAN WHO LIVED IN HER SHOES
Carrie has a ‘substance abuse’ problem. Her poison? Shoes. She manages to amass a shoe wardrobe worth at least $40,000 on a freelance journalist’s salary, but she can’t afford to buy her own apartment. With her boyfriend moving out, she despairs of her dire financial situation and exclaims ‘I will literally be the old woman who lived in her shoes.’ When you’ve got Jimmy Choo, who needs a house anyway?
CHARLOTTE AND THE SHOE FETISHIST
Charlotte is encouraged to try on a pair of shoes she can’t afford by an enthusiastic salesman. He offers her a discount she can’t refuse. Later, she returns. This time, he offers to give her another pair of shoes for free – if she lets him rub her feet. Charlotte has a thing for shoes, the salesman has one for feet. Sure, it’s not for everyone – but she gets a pair of $500 leather slingbacks out of it, and he gets his kicks, too.
THE ‘LAST’ DATE
With Mr Big leaving town for a vineyward in Napa (sigh), Carrie purchases a pair of pink ruffled Christian Louboutins to wear on their final date. ‘Hello, lover’, she says breathlessly on seeing them through the shop window. Cue a pregnant Miranda’s waters breaking all over the Louboutins. Arguably, Miranda is the hero of this scene. Savage but very funny.
A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO SHOES
Carrie turns ‘shoe detective’ when her beloved silver Manolos are stolen at a party. The host later offers to pay for them (super awkward) and then shames her for spending so much on shoes (even more awkward). Carrie’s response? To tell the shoe-shamer she’s getting married to herself – and is gift registered at Manolo Blahnik. A little pass ag and a lot far-fetched, but we nonetheless salute her dedication to expensive footwear.
THE VOGUE CLOSET
Like a ‘kid in a couture candy store’, Carrie freaks out when she discovers a pair of Manolo Blahnik Mary Janes in the Vogue accessories closet. ‘I thought these were an urban shoe myth’ she says, holding them up in fashionable awe.