Merry Scandalmas! You get a Prada tote! And you get a pair of ecru wide leg pants! And you get a cream-to-dove gray shawl collared overcoat! It’s Thursday, and it’s time for everyone’s favorite morally ambiguous hero to make her triumphant return to prime time television. I’m not even going to get into the premiere of How to Get Away With Murder because I literally can’t, but WHEW tonight is going to be great. To honor The Pastel-Clad One, Mother of Gladiators, I’m sharing what we’re cocktailing (we’re not) what we’re cocktail wearing (minimalist and tasteful but EXPENSIVE) and what we’re actually wearing (besides the white hat) to see just how anyone is going to pick up any of the pieces after last season’s bonkers finale. Did Pope Daddy actually stab himself in the heart to get that entire sequence of events going? What are his master plans now that B6-13 is back? WTF is Mellie’s wig going to do now? Is Olivia still frolicking on a beach in the Seychelles wearing a white Gucci bikini? And will David Rosen, in fact, get the bad guys? Go grab some Gettysburgers and start popping a gallon of popcorn now, we’re going to need it.
First of all, obviously we are not drinking cocktails, we are drinking red wine. To be precise, we are drinking the preferred wine of the character, but what wine does Olivia Pope drink? I have it on good authority it’s a full bodied red. Most likely a Shiraz, and very possibly a 1994 Châteauneuf du Pape, though she has in the past opened up a bottle of Bordeaux that will make Cryus’ eyes water. We are not drinking whatever Kerry Washington drinks on set, because it’s not real wine and she doesn’t drink at all because…empty calories. Womp. And yes, we are drinking them out of Camille glasses, which my best friend bought exclusively and solely for the purpose of drinking red wine while watching Scandal.
Hermes Osmose Ring
We are wearing this lovely, simple and chic Hermes Osmose ring. Olivia wouldn’t want anything gaudy or, heaven forbid, colorful. So this simple sterling ring with equestrian leanings is just the right thing to match her luxurious, clean and sleek apartment/wine/pajamas. And it’s Hermes, so it suits her style and taste.
We are also wearing the requisite Olivia Pope wine drinking uniform: impractically colored wine cardigan and fancy jammies. Liv’s are Donna Karan on top and La Perla on bottom, as one does. Luckily, this is the preferred uniform of Scandal watchers everywhere, and also luckily, we can cheat and wear it in other colors besides cream and taupe. Because when something like this happens, I reserve the right to shriek and spill my wine all over myself.
