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The bloomers were open (like a slit) at the crotch, so all you had to do was gather up your skirt and squat over a chamber pot or whatever. My grandma helpfully explained this to me once. Sixty years later I'm still mortified.

She did, leading the first carriage. Meant to reply to Atlanta above.

Meh: Saw all of that Oscar shite coming, and I think I can see the future. Agnes isn't moving house. Not meh: EMILY! They did copy her court dress, which can live with. It was lovely. The real opening of the brooklyn bridge was more dramatic, involving PT Barnum and elephants and more, but this was ok. We don't know the exact real story of Emily and her husband because correspondence was burned up. Peggy better watch out for mom, she's on the case. More Audra McDonald is a pure joy.

Hi from New York. I "had occasion" to attend a luncheon at the Metropolitan Club this week, designed by Stanford White, land gifted in the 1890s by Mrs. Duke of Marlborough. The building is beyond spectacular and looks like Bertha's house, one block down. (Metropolitan Club, Fifth and 60th street.) Food was meh, LOL I'm not sure that this is the spoiler thread, but I see Emily Roebling stuff here. They're going to do (i.e. appropriate) the full Emily story next episode. She did all it seems the show is going to say she did, and more, and it looks like they're going to dress her in her in a costume imitating her fabulous yellow Court Dress, which she wore to meet Queesn Victoria. It's in the Met Costume Institute collection now. ONLY Engineer with a court dress presented to the queen of England. This is the only program I've ever watched that covers women structural engineers (my profession) and their formal fashion. (like I said, never wore a dress to be presented to royalty.) It's like nirvana to me.

I don't care, I know it's Fellows Soap Opera, but Cynthia and Robert Sean are the best actors and I'm going to cry until tomorrow. Not much Bertha, but lots of George, I'll take it.

The wedding was awesome - Sean Patrick Reverend seems a solid dude, and sisters Cynthia and Christine nailed it. Mayhem will follow I'm certain, but that was a great Julian Fellows wedding scene. (Although people forget that women couldn't get into those clothes unassisted, one of the maids had to be in on Agnes' surprise appearance and helped her dress. I'm betting it was Debra Monk.)

Squeeeeee! Emily Roebling! The patron saint of female structural engineers!!!!! (I am one of those.) Emily's story is GREAT and I won't spoil it, except to say that the American Society of Civil Engineers Construction Engineering award is the Roebling Award, in honor of John, Washington, and EMILY Roebling. Wheeee!

And the beginning music was Best of My Love, which started the long opening shot in Boogie Nightsi, with Nicole Ari Parker as (whispering) Becky Barnett!

Absolutely. The Trey marriage was something from 1950, really. Bunny wanted to set up Charlotte to marry her ridiculous son because it checked every box and she figured Charlotte would be up for it, for the status as much as the money. But Charlotte always wanted to be married with a lot of sex, which Trey couldn't provide, possibly because of mommy issues (my take). She definitely didn't want to have to be a society wife on salary, essentially, with no hotness in the marriage. She's ok, IMO, I mean I can't say I wouldn't put my doggie in Burberry if I had the money.

I squee-ed when I saw Rosemary DeWitt. A long time ago, like I guess 2006ish, my niece and I went to have a fancy snooty Thanksgiving dinner in Morris County NJ, I think the Pluckemin Inn in Bedminster. We got seated in the cellar, which was not a slight, actually even snootier and blissfully quiet. There was only one other table, with an older gentleman and a young couple. My niece saw them first. The woman was saying "You don't know Dad, the show may not even be picked up." Niece side-nodded at them and whispered to me "post it..." and since I'm always so cool I said, kinda loud "what the f do you mean POST IT?" It was Ron Livingston and Rosemary DeWitt having T-Day dinner with her Dad. They were very gracious, she chatted with me in the ladies room even though I wanted to melt into the floor. The show that might not have been picked up was Mad Men.

Lifetime NYC bar patron here. I've always worked in Manhattan, and if Steve has had the same bar for 30 years, through recessions and COVID, in real life I'd have been there, Steve's would be famous and a NY fixture. Actual tourist reviews on Yelp like "OMG we went to Steve's for beers and burgers, just the place to go by Lincoln Center like everyone says!!" NY Post Page 6: "Leo DiCaprio and newest model GF spotted in the back room at Steve's!!!" Steve himself would be more well known in NYC than the dipshit billionaires on the show. Brady would already know how to make a mean cocktail. They'd be wearing merch. Instead Steve goes to "the bar" like he's going to go mop floors.

There was easily a hundred thousand bucks worth of clothes in this episode. Carrie's dumb coat in the snow probably cost 20 grand. (Source: tomandlorenzo.com). They have some wardrobe budget - even if they're rentals. Julie White!!! The star of the episode! This really was a good episode, except for the Goldenblatt-Yorks. I'm just gonna go on thinking that parents don't trudge through snowstorms to deliver birth control to their kid who's about to have sex for the first time, okay?

Also, why are they showing super rich people with no support staff? Charlotte doesn't clean that apartment herself. They'd all have assistants to do things like arrange parties. They'd have nannies. The Met Gala (which they called the Met Ball for some reason) costs $35K for a ticket and then another $50k and up for the couture. They'd hardly ever be in cabs, they'd take black cars. See: Succession.

I had breast cancer (bad) at 51. I'm 64 now. Aging has definitely been a privilege, thank you for that❤️. More statistics: Candice Bergen is 77 and is a gift to all of us. Gloria Steinem is almost 90 and is one of the greatest humans who has ever lived. I guess I have to thank SJP for having this teevee show that gets those two goddesses to show up. I flat out f-forwarded through Charlotte and Miranda's stories. Charlotte is cool and gorgeous but the story was silly, and Miranda is just....someone else. I have known a lot of people in a lot of circumstances, but nothing like this. People trans, people come out, people realize they were living the 'wrong' life. But the Miranda character is agreeing to being abused after a lifetime of success, and the show is treating it like it's funny and she's being a poor sport.