Displaced Meg Ryan Season

Hello and welcome! If you’re here because you’ve been following Crying Weasel for a while, great! This is my new website and I hope you like it! If you’re here because you stumbled on this website because I put the “cool” tag on every listing… that’s tight. Can’t believe that worked.

The reason I decided to start up a real-deal website is because of this feature right here: the blog. I re-watched You’ve Got Mail recently (there will never be a limit to the re-watches of that Ephron classic,) and felt ~inspired~ to start a blog. I’ve tried and failed with blogs before, so I thought I’d tie it in to my work! Surely this will hold, right?

Anyway, I know it’s not Meg Ryan season anymore (that’s what I call the time period between Halloween and Thanksgiving,) but I want to take this opportunity to highlight my top five Meg lewks since she’s basically the whole reason we are here.

5. “You’ve Got Mail” Meg (1998)

Listen.

This is one of my go-to comfort films, but I do not enjoy most of the wardrobe choices for our pal Meg. They do have an endearing quality, much like Kathleen Kelly herself, even though you’d expect a little more eccentricity from a West Side New York native. This is what I think was the best look, and it’s the only one she didn’t even want to wear.

Because of my indifference to Meg’s actual wardrobe in this movie and I don’t have many good things to say about it, I’m going to shift slightly and talk about Christina’s (played by Heather Burns) look, which is that of a fun and quintessentially 90s New Yorker vibe. Her pigtails, her collared shirts buttoned all the way up, her choice of low-slung overalls. I can’t get enough of ‘em.

Maybe it’s a cop-out to show another character’s wardrobe in a list entirely about Meg Ryan. Oops.

Also… sorry for the crop job, Steve Zahn.

4. “Kate & Leopold” Meg (2001)

The ever-present masculine/feminine dichotomy of Meg Ryan.

This is one of my favorite and, IMO, underrated movies of the early aughts. Our girl Meg is climbing the ladder in her career, even though her misogynist boss basically sexualizes everything he talks to her about. Anyway, we’re not here to talk about the human slug that is JJ.

Kate doesn’t have time for bullshit from men, and neither does her wardrobe. She’s practical, she’s classic, she’s a real softy in her heart.

3. “Hanging Up” Meg (2000)

I absolutely love the chaos of this movie.

To be fair, the movie cycles through a few decades. I picked some stills of the “present day” looks. She’s got that choppy, short ‘do that every millennial tween wanted and couldn’t quite pull off and she wears, quite frankly, the chicest messy basics. Oatmeals and creams are the names of the game in this film, y’all.

Dare I say she truly started the maxi skirt trend?

Meg’s character Eve is always running around taking care of literally every person in her family and in several scenes she is rocking a white maxi skirt and wrapping herself up in that dope camel cashmere coat.

-pause to appreciate the tiny sunnies-

How she didn’t trip while juggling all those bulky cell phone convos, I’ll never know.

2. “The Women” Meg (2008)

First let me just apologize for the quality of this photo, which was the only image showing the full version of this casually cool gardening ensemble.

Maybe you hated this movie, or maybe you don’t want to admit that you loved it. Maybe it’s International Women’s Day as I type this, and you can appreciate the fact that this movie had Z E R O men to do with any of it. I’m talking cast AND crew.

I love a messy long-haired Meg (Meg’s hair in “Sleepless in Seattle” can get an honorary mention, but Rosie O’Donnell was the real wardrobe hero in that one.)

Sure, I get that stripes were basically a personality trait of Meg’s character, Mary, but 2008 was a hard time for fashion.

I’ll be gardening like this from now on, thanks.

1. “When Harry Met Sally” Meg (1989)

Is it cliche or just plain iconic?

Here’s an outfit that I think deserves a ‘lil more attention, featured in a flashback scene from when Harry and Sally are on their road trip from college to the big apple. I’ll have what she’s having, indeed!

This spring I’m going to try to bring back tall socks and long, high-waisted shorts both personally and in my shop styling. It’s nice to have goals to set for ourselves, right?

Maybe I’ll even shoot for some all-season gloves and more hats in 2021.

Billy Crystal’s wardrobe can get a nod, as well. That’s fine, too.