Spoilers ahead for Wicked, the 22-year-old Broadway show, and Wicked: For Good.

Last year at the Oscars, Paul Tazewell deservedly won Best Costume Design for Wicked , and he could very well do so again this year for the film’s sequel, Wicked: For Good . If he manages this feat, it will be due to the gloriously detailed costumes of the Munchkins, Glinda the Good’s slew of artisanal pink gowns, and the Tin Man’s silver suit, which is simultaneously beautiful and eerie. It will also, technically, be for Elphaba Thropp’s bulky, itchy-looking, ragged greige cardigan, which she puts on to make love. And that will be something that both Tazewell and I will have to live with.

The sex cardigan appears only once, during what should be the steamiest, naked-est moment in the film: Elphaba a

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