Sarah Jessica Parker's Floor-Length Oscar De La Renta: Gotta Have It or Make It Stop?

While at the Carnegie Hall 2012-2013 Season Opening Night Gala, we wonder if SJP's gown is too long and too busy for the petite star.

By Leslie Gornstein Oct 04, 2012 6:07 PMTags
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Here is a fun statistic: Sarah Jessica Parker is a size zero. Or, at least, that's been her size for years.

When someone is a size zero like SJP, (5 feet 3 inches), and not a size zero like Chanel Iman, (5 feet 9 inches), then certain fashion sacrifices must be made. Long skirts can make such petite people look positively wee. Maxi dresses? They practically shrink SJP types into one of those foot-high imps from World of Warcraft.

And yet, here's the Sex and the City franchise star in an Oscar de la Renta dress that has eaten her feet and probably gone to work on her shins by now. The hair is effortlessly chic, a phrase that is overused but totally appropriate here, and the necklace is fine—the clutch is neither here nor there. We're not even mad at the busy pattern.

But the length just doesn't work for us. What about you? What do you think of SJP's floor-length de la Renta: Gotta Have It or Make It Stop?

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