Elphaba’s ‘Sex Cardigan’ Broke the Internet—Here Are 7 You Can Actually Buy

In “Wicked: For Good,” Elphaba and Fiyero finally hook up in her little treehouse hideaway. It’s supposed to be the big swoony payoff, but the actual star of the scene is… a gigantic grey cardigan. The internet promptly named it the “sex cardigan,” a chunky, holey knit that multiple outlets have compared to a discarded fishing net, and yet, somehow, the collective brain has decided it’s hot now.

Cynthia Erivo is in mild black lingerie, Jonathan Bailey’s chest hair is doing its own form of acting, tween girls are giggling as if they’ve never seen exposed collarbones before, and adults (read: gay men like myself) are sitting there thinking, “This man has had a foot in his mouth on TV and this is the scene you’re clutching pearls over?” Still, the cardigan works. It keeps things PG while imp