Forget trying to “steal Carrie’s look” already. There are plenty of other options courtesy of Pat Field.

Enough with Eiffel tower purses and gladiator sandals. There are other looks, people.

When I reminisce about the good old days, fashion-wise, it’s not when SATC was on the air, although I was a fan of the show. It was a few years before those days when super-stylist Patricia Field made her living as the owner of various funky clothing boutiques. She still has the one shop on the Bowery with the “Pat’s Kitchen Equip.” sign, but one would guess that’s just a hobby for ol’ Pattycake now. Back in the day, Patricia Field could often be seen behind the counter of her West Eighth Street boutique, along her fun-loving staff of drag queens and club kids, who would man the dressing room, make-up counter and wig salon. For a while there was also a Sixth Avenue boutique, also in the West Village, and a Soho shop. It was in the earlier run West Village stores that that I got to witness the amazing transformation of would be transvestites and drag queens from men into… well, girlie men, with the mere application of pink eyelashes and a filmy negligee. Fortunately for me, they had plenty of things in regular girl sizes too, from baby tees with vulgar words on them to fringe covered minis. I couldn’t always afford the stuff, but I did so love to try things on the dressing rooms that were decorated in paintings of long-lashed, pouty-lipped divas.



That’s why I nearly squealed like a peeg upon finding this t-shirt design on the Patricia Field online store. For those who haven’t been to the site, or been to it lately, it’s now got a nice—not huge but nice—selection of clothes and accessories for sale—and not just things that scream Carrie, although there is a nameplate accessory here and there as well as a studded belt. Like the brick and mortar boutiques and like SATC, there are misses as well as hits happening, but that’s part of the fun.

Besides the painting tee, here are few things I liked:

The diamond-look makes these sparkle star earrings, $35, look luxurious, but the stars make them funky enough to dress down as well as up.

This leopard onesie, $140, is more biker babe than baby.

There’s no not looking mysterious and glam in this Stop Staring purple Katrina dress, $242.

The site also has selections from the Patricia Field for Payless line and section for Pat’s personal picks.