fashion alert: NYC

Consignment Redux The costume designer Patrica Field used to be a regular at the Ina consignment shops in New York, snatching up designer glad rags to outfit the style-obsessed stars of "Sex and the City." Well, what goes around comes around. Some of those very pieces, which Ms. Field picked up for a song, have found their way back to Ina.

Last month, heeding a call from the show's costume department, Ina, the shops' owner (she goes by her first name only), rushed to retrieve many of the items she had originally supplied — and then some. On Thursday at 10 a.m., those castoffs will go on sale at the Ina boutique at 21 Prince Street in a marathon 12-hour event. Aficionados are expected to scramble for trophies like a black sequined Chanel dress, priced at $2,500; Manolo Blahnik pink suede mules ($300); and the 1950's tulle evening dress worn by Sarah Jessica Parker on the show's finale, also $300. Rent a van.