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When AJLT released its second season, SJP sent the internet into a frenzy with an off-the-shoulder powder blue Norma Kamali dress, quickly dubbed the new Carrie dress (reminiscent of the iconic charcoal body-sculpting LBD from season 2, episode 15 of Sex and the City )

Here she is in a pink organza-tripping hazard of a gown by Elie Saab, cut to mimic floral petals, which manages to partly flout the nudity ban too

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This cap sleeve dress could be used for a number of occasions

By the 1870s the crinoline was discarded in favour of the bustle

It was based on a sketch by the famed designer Bob Mackie, working for the costumer Jean Louis at the time