How to Make a Champagne Glass Costume

"Champagne is the only wine that leaves a woman beautiful after drinking it." - Madame de Pompadour

In addition to being an expensive and often delicious beverage or beverage component (in cocktails such as the Mimosa and the Death in the Afternoon), a glass of champagne is visual and gustatory shorthand for a classy celebration. For a classy costume party, go several steps beyond simply serving or drinking champagne by dressing up as a giant glass of champagne. It is a unique and sexy costume appropriate for Mardi Gras, birthdays, wedding receptions and -- the granddaddy of champagne-appropriate occasions -- New Year's Eve.

Things You'll Need

• Gold tank top, tube top, or other short-sleeved shirt
• Gold skirt
• Translucent silvery gauze
• Scissors
• Needle
• Thread
• Gold glitter hairspray
• Gold body glitter
• Light silver stockings
• Silver or transparent high heels

Instructions

1. Cut a swath of the gauze, measuring about the distance from your shoulders to your hips in height and the circumference of your torso in width. Sew this swath into a tube.

2. Wiggle into the tube and have a friend mark where your shoulders fall. Make sure the seam falls over one arm. Wiggle back out of the tube and cut arm holes where your shoulders were.

3. Put on the stockings, the gold top and skirt, and the heels. Put the tube of gauzy fabric on over this ensemble and stick your arms through the arm holes.

4. Top the look off by spraying your hair with gold glitter and putting on lots of glittery gold makeup.

Tips & Warnings

• Other accessories that may enhance this costume include sunglasses with yellow lenses, a furry white stole around your shoulders (for "foam") and a gold wig.

References

• Susie J: Champagne Facts