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.

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.

In the form of a shrouded corpse, the disease infiltrates the prince’s costume ball, stalking the revelers who drop “one by one” in “the blood-bedewed halls of their revel.”

"She wore it to a costume ball at the Mansion House in 1964 in aid of one of her favourite charities, the St John ambulance," he said.