If you're still waiting for an apology for Carrie's awful, no good, very bad Strawberry Shortcake hat on And Just Like That..., it might be time to reset expectations. This is Sex and the City we're talking about, after all, and just weeks after Sarah Jessica Parker defended the giant hat, the And Just Like That costume designers are speaking out, with one even admitting they were “annoyed” by the backlash.

Co-costume designers Molly Rogers and Danny Santiago knew that the enormous, oversized, gingham bonnet Carrie wears in the season 3 premiere of And Just Like That... would be controversial. “We knew they would come for us,” Molly said in a new interview with Page Six. “That kind of annoyed me, because I think, at this point we're all a big family, we all watch the show, we know what it is,” she added of the immediate backlash and comparisons to Strawberry Shortcake. “That fazes you?”

To be fair, Molly has a point. The hat is far from the most outrageous accessory Carrie has ever worn. Let's face it, it's probably not even in the top 5 (hello pigeon purse!). Still, it's hard to deny that the hat, designed by Maryam Keyhani, feels extremely Strawberry Shortcake coded, and therefore a bit ridiculous.

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Despite standing by the hat, the costume designers also made clear that if anyone is to blame for it, it's Sarah herself. “She grabbed it. It was on a table and she grabbed it,” Danny told Page Six. “She went to the table, looked in the mirror, and was like, ‘I love it. We have to do it.’”

“I saw the hat and wanted it on my head,” Sarah previously said in an interview with USA Today. “At this point, there's no pretend dilly-dallying around. We pretty much just put stuff on my head and photograph it, and hope that [showrunner] Michael Patrick [King] is hospitable to the idea.”

Head In The Clouds - Gingham

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Michael Patrick, meanwhile, called the hat “the Hindenburg hot-balloon,” but told USA Today that the accessory was the perfect way to kick off season 3. “It's like, ‘Hey, everybody, we're back! Here's a hat Carrie would wear eating sherbet in Washington Square Park. Why not?’”