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Any fan of Gilmore Girls knows that Lorelai Gilmore is chic from head to toe (even if she is running late for her daughter’s school drop-offs). And out of the many looks worn by the effortlessly put-together mom, there’s a very specific one that continues to be a cornerstone of the show — and it’s all due to Lauren Graham.
On Alex Cooper’s podcast, Call Her Daddy, the actress — who played the fast-talking Stars Hollow inn owner for the entirety of the series’ run and, later, the Netflix reboot — revealed that, while many of her personal items didn’t make the wardrobe cut, there was one shirt in particular that did.
“I think that ‘Everyone loves an Irish girl’ T-shirt that was my introduction to Instagram,” said Graham when asked if any of Lorelai’s clothes were actually hers.
The shirt, which Graham wore in her first Instagram selfie, debuts in the season 4 episode “Ballrooms and Biscotti,” which opens with Lorelai and Rory (played by Alexis Bledel) returning home from a whirlwind backpacking trip across Europe.
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Besides the “occasional” borrow from her closet, Graham, 58, generally relied on the costumes laid out for her at the start of every shoot. “You know, you’re going to work at 5 in the morning, so I wasn’t bringing in anything good. Also, her clothes were more fun, my clothes are not fun,” she said.
The looks featured in Gilmore Girls were the creative vision of costumers Brenda Maden and Valerie Campbell, who both also worked on Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. The sitcom — which follows Lorelai and her daughter Rory (who’s 16 years her junior) as they navigate life, love and more in their homey Connecticut town — was created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and premiered in October 2000. It lasted seven seasons before it was revived in November 2016.
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Speaking with PEOPLE at PaleyFest L.A on March 29, Graham said that landing the role of Lorelai “hit me like meeting somebody.”
“It hit me like a boyfriend,” she said. “Honestly, it was just like a connection that I felt so connected to it immediately and also, ‘Everyone else get out of my way,’ which is not a feeling I felt often.”
“I just felt seen. I felt like I recognized this, and it recognized me and I don’t know how often that happens,” Graham added.
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