Like pretty much everything surrounding Ryan Murphy’s American Love Story , the limited series’s costumes have been a hot topic. After the first glimpses of actress Sarah Pidgeon in character as Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy hit the wires in early June, there was a far-reaching outcry amongst the real CBK’s devoted fashion fans. Purists pointed out that the Calvin Klein executive would never have worn a polyester blend skirt, and that Pidgeon was carrying the wrong size of Hermès Birkin— quelle horreur !

Murphy quickly pointed out that those were merely “test shots,” and in the weeks since, the fashion has improved quite substantially in terms of accuracy. Pidgeon, who underwent a hair transformation into an ashy blonde, has been spotted around New York City in Bessette-Kennedy signa

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