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This article contains spoilers for Episode 11 of the second season of \u201cAnd Just Like That \u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

After 11 episodes of ball gowns and bucket hats, questionable Met Gala looks and so much plaid, Season 2 of \u201cAnd Just Like That \u2026\u201d has come to an end.<\/p>\n

In the season\u2019s finale, Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) hosts a soiree to say goodbye to her apartment. Most of her closest friends are there, except for Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), the \u201cSex and the City\u201d fan favorite who finally appeared in a 75-second scene, to explain why she could not attend the party. In the episode, which forces reckonings between many of the show\u2019s romantic pairings, Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) wonders whether her relationship with Che Diaz (Sara Ramirez) was \u201ca good train wreck\u201d or simply a train wreck.<\/p>\n

This season, members of the Styles desk often asked similar questions about the show\u2019s costumes, and ahead of the final episode, gathered to discuss Carrie\u2019s kitten, Samantha\u2019s return and whether the show\u2019s ostentatious looks paid off.<\/p>\n

Katie Van Syckle<\/strong> The cat\u2019s name is Shoe!<\/p>\n

Jeremy Allen<\/strong> As predicted, the cat was a harbinger of empty Gramercy Park hallways to come. And I maintain that Shoe might very well be spelled Chou, as in Choupette.<\/p>\n

Vanessa Friedman<\/strong> Shoe \u2014 or Chou \u2014 is very satisfying as a pet name. Also predictable. Maybe as predictable as the news that \u201cAnd Just Like That \u2026\u201d had been renewed for a third season.<\/p>\n

Maybe that is why it was hard for me not to watch it and see the whole thing as a turning point: Carrie is staying in her new apartment no matter what, and it seems all the characters have finally settled into a certain visual consistency, as displayed by outfits during the last supper.<\/p>\n

It was as if, maybe, they had finally reached a new stage.<\/p>\n

Louis Lucero II<\/strong> I see what you mean about the visual consistency on display during the last supper, but it also felt like an elevation of each character\u2019s personal style.<\/p>\n

VF<\/strong> I agree. Miranda seems to have finally found an aesthetic balance, ironically in an asymmetric caped dress, the way she has finally found a balance with her exes. Ditto Seema in a silver lurex halter that seems to reflect her new willingness to take a relationship risk; ditto Nya in her prints.<\/p>\n

Even Carrie, whose accessory sleeves I still find a bizarre fashion statement (if you buy a dress with no sleeves, it is because you want a dress with no sleeves), looked chic in her silver and black checkerboard dress, rather than merely kooky. I consider graduating from kooky a step forward.<\/p>\n

Callie Holtermann<\/strong> Right, each look offered a clue to where that character was headed next. Miranda, in her garnet dress, seamlessly transitioned into an appearance on BBC. It was reasonable and sophisticated Miranda \u2014 not green bucket hat Miranda covered in seaweed at the beginning of the season.<\/p>\n

LL<\/strong> The men, too, seemed to be leaning into type. Giuseppe\u2019s band collar beneath a rumpled chambray jacket seemed note-perfect for a poet at a dinner party. And in a double-breasted suit and knotted scarf, Seema\u2019s lover Ravi looked just as you would expect a movie star haggling over permission to shoot in front of the Great Sphinx to look. (Though, perhaps not in this century.)<\/p>\n

CH<\/strong> The dinner outfits were fabulous, but many viewers may be focused on the attire of the one character who didn\u2019t make it: Samantha.<\/p>\n

When she calls Carrie, she appears in a bright red dress layered under a metallic jacket. Even though they are separated by an ocean, the two women were both carrying Fendi bags.<\/p>\n

LL<\/strong> After weeks of hype for this season-finale cameo by Kim Cattrall, I\u2019m not sure the appearance was worth it.<\/p>\n

VF<\/strong> That whole Samantha moment looked like a Band-Aid to me.<\/p>\n

LL<\/strong> Band-Aid is right. Much was made of Ms. Cattrall\u2019s eagerness to be dressed by the original \u201cSex and the City\u201d costume designer, Patricia Field. But of what little we could see of Samantha in the back of that car, nothing felt particularly fresh.<\/p>\n

JA<\/strong> The fact that Samantha\u2019s look was, to Louis\u2019s point, relatively understated almost feels like even more of a power play.<\/p>\n

CH<\/strong> In the episode, Miranda asked Che whether their relationship was \u201ca good train wreck\u201d or just a train wreck. We\u2019ve certainly wondered the same thing about the costumes in this series.<\/p>\n

LL<\/strong> For a season that began with Charlotte\u2019s genuinely monstrous Met Gala look and ended with Carrie\u2019s mod checkerboard skirt, I\u2019m notching it up as a win.<\/p>\n

VF<\/strong> That\u2019s a good way to put it. Though whatever kind of train wreck it was \u2014 sometimes amusing, sometimes irritating \u2014 I do think it\u2019s time, as Miranda said, that it takes us in a new direction.<\/p>\n

JA<\/strong> I\u2019ve got to say, I was along for the ride, as bumpy as it was from time to time. There was always something startling and shiny to see out the window.<\/p>\n

Vanessa Friedman Katie Van Syckle, Louis Lucero II Jeremy Allen and Callie Holtermann contributed reporting.<\/p>\n

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