Life is champagne, Highness.
October 14, 2008 8:04 AM Subscribe
Help me be Halloween's best embodiment of Champagne ever.
So far I've nailed the "shimmery gold" aspect: I have a pretty bling outfit that includes a gold dress (I'm hemming it to knee-length and putting tulle underneath), gold tights, and gold shoes. I am also considering a pill box hat that I'd somehow attach to a curled wire so it's popping above my head, like a shooting cork.
I don't want to go dressed as a bottle of champagne to the extent that I cannot pee without someone else unzipping me. I'm going more for the spirit of champagne, if anything.
First: how would I attach a pill box hat so the wire curls around my head? Is that just asking for trouble? Perhaps I should just wear the pill box hat and save myself the wire-related mishaps.
Second: I don't like overly literal garnish, like earrings shaped as champagne bottles. I was thinking of wrapping my shoulders in shiny green foil, a la the bottle neck, which still frees up my arms. Blowing bubbles is cute but maybe too fey, and almost definitely too messy for indoors.
So far I've nailed the "shimmery gold" aspect: I have a pretty bling outfit that includes a gold dress (I'm hemming it to knee-length and putting tulle underneath), gold tights, and gold shoes. I am also considering a pill box hat that I'd somehow attach to a curled wire so it's popping above my head, like a shooting cork.
I don't want to go dressed as a bottle of champagne to the extent that I cannot pee without someone else unzipping me. I'm going more for the spirit of champagne, if anything.
First: how would I attach a pill box hat so the wire curls around my head? Is that just asking for trouble? Perhaps I should just wear the pill box hat and save myself the wire-related mishaps.
Second: I don't like overly literal garnish, like earrings shaped as champagne bottles. I was thinking of wrapping my shoulders in shiny green foil, a la the bottle neck, which still frees up my arms. Blowing bubbles is cute but maybe too fey, and almost definitely too messy for indoors.
Best answer: You could carry plastic champagne glasses with you. Of course you must go for coupes, which are so wonderfully retro that they are in again, instead of flutes!
I can picture what you are trying to go for with the hat -- but I think that mounting the actual hat on the wire would be troublesome and likely uncomfortable. What if, instead, you went for the pillbox hat to wear normally.. and attached long strands of wire coming out of the top of it? Then, to the end of one of them, mount a champagne cork, to emulate the cork shooting from the bottle. Decorate the other wires with glittery gold and sparkly stuff to depict the spray and foam (which of course also depicts an improper opening, but hey, this is art). Get tiny clear plastic balls from a craft store (they will be in right now as Christmas decor) and use those, which would make great "bubbles."
What about, instead of a shoulder wrap, a green or gold sash with a painted message or design, in a font like Perrier-Jouet's or Nicolas Feuillatte (both of which evoke "Champagne" to me).
You could dye a chef's toque light brown, and embellish it to look "corky", but you might feel that to be in the too-literal camp. (Of course, this would also allow you to get really gimmicky, and attach some springy wires, tulle and sparkles to a headband or skullcap or hairnet, and wear that underneath the brown cork toque. "Pull the cork" and the bottle "sprays." Now you're an interactive costume.
As long as you're sewing on the dress... you could get strands of gold and/or pearl beads or even gold seed beads, from the notions and trims department of your fabric store, and attach those randomly, from the hem of the dress all the way up to emulate the cords of bubbles that rise through the glass.
posted by pineapple at 9:03 AM on October 14, 2008
I can picture what you are trying to go for with the hat -- but I think that mounting the actual hat on the wire would be troublesome and likely uncomfortable. What if, instead, you went for the pillbox hat to wear normally.. and attached long strands of wire coming out of the top of it? Then, to the end of one of them, mount a champagne cork, to emulate the cork shooting from the bottle. Decorate the other wires with glittery gold and sparkly stuff to depict the spray and foam (which of course also depicts an improper opening, but hey, this is art). Get tiny clear plastic balls from a craft store (they will be in right now as Christmas decor) and use those, which would make great "bubbles."
What about, instead of a shoulder wrap, a green or gold sash with a painted message or design, in a font like Perrier-Jouet's or Nicolas Feuillatte (both of which evoke "Champagne" to me).
You could dye a chef's toque light brown, and embellish it to look "corky", but you might feel that to be in the too-literal camp. (Of course, this would also allow you to get really gimmicky, and attach some springy wires, tulle and sparkles to a headband or skullcap or hairnet, and wear that underneath the brown cork toque. "Pull the cork" and the bottle "sprays." Now you're an interactive costume.
As long as you're sewing on the dress... you could get strands of gold and/or pearl beads or even gold seed beads, from the notions and trims department of your fabric store, and attach those randomly, from the hem of the dress all the way up to emulate the cords of bubbles that rise through the glass.
posted by pineapple at 9:03 AM on October 14, 2008
How about blowing bubbles?
posted by gottabefunky at 11:27 AM on October 14, 2008
posted by gottabefunky at 11:27 AM on October 14, 2008
Response by poster: I really like the idea of the sash-as-label, scabrous. Carrying champagne glasses might get complicated at bars, but then again, so will the bottle of Brut I plan on toting. Thanks, all!
posted by zoomorphic at 3:03 PM on October 14, 2008
posted by zoomorphic at 3:03 PM on October 14, 2008
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Nothing says champagne to me like a leather corset.
And yes, I did drink a bottle of this. Yum yum.
posted by cjorgensen at 8:54 AM on October 14, 2008