20 iconic episodes of Sex and the City you need to rewatch

A Woman’s Right To Shoes (Season 6, Episode 9)

It’s no secret that Carrie Bradshaw has a serious shopping problem. Sex and The City basically revolves around that idea, and for years since the show aired people have tried to figure out exactly how Carrie could afford such extravagant, fashionable pieces working as a writer (hint: lots of debt). And in this season 6 episode, Carrie was very clearly shamed for her love of expensive shoes.

Carrie attends a baby shower, which is bad enough already, but then the hostess Kyra insists everybody take off their shoes when they come in. Carrie reluctantly takes off her $485 Manolo Blahniks, and believe it or not, when Carrie goes to leave, the shoes are mysteriously gone. Kyra insists somebody must’ve mistaken them for their own shoes and lends Carrie a pair of sneakers to go home in.

If it wasn’t bad enough that someone had the audacity to steal Carrie’s shoes, when she goes back to Kyra’s to see if they turned up, she gets shoe shamed. Kyra offers to pay for the missing shoes, since it happened at her house, but she’s dumbfounded when Carrie tells her they cost $485, and will only agree to give her a check for $200. She says she shouldn’t “have to pay for your extravagant lifestyle.”

She shames Carrie for choosing to pay that much for shoes, because Kyra is a mother who has different priorities, and that’s somehow Carrie’s fault. Carrie complains about all the wedding and baby gifts she had to give Kyra over the years, and when she crunched the numbers it came to more than $485, which gave her an idea.

The ever-clever Miss Bradshaw announced she was getting married — to herself — and registered for gifts at Manolo Blahnik, and only told one person, Kyra. Kyra ends up buying the one thing on Carrie’s registry, which was the pair of shoes that someone stole.

To really hammer in the episode’s message of “some women really don’t want children,” Samantha also has to deal with a snotty mom and bratty child. In a restaurant, while on a business call, she’s told she isn’t allowed to use her cell phone, but when she points out the annoying child being way louder than her, the waiter says he can’t do anything about that.

Sam heads over to tell the mother that it wasn’t an appropriate restaurant to bring a young child to, and can you believe it, the kid THROWS spaghetti with pesto all over her stylish white suit. How did she not kill that kid right then and there?