costume ball

Revenge is on her mind, and thus she organizes a motley crew of domestic workers, fallen women, dreamers and scammers to rob the house during a costume ball.

In 1903 the same year as Nicholas’s costume ball—four out of every five Russians were peasants.

And so Nicholas was throwing a costume ball.

Stop dressing as if for a costume ball in which the goal is to out-Instagram one another.

One of the book’s better chapters is built around Alva Vanderbilt’s eye-popping 1883 costume ball, intended mainly to bring her social rival, the famous Mrs. Astor, to her knees.