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1-09-2009 @3:52PM gretchen said... Is that really what the glass looks like? Ewwww
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1-09-2009 @6:10PM Alex said... Decolletage is the neck line and the glass is ... um ... decidedly NOT modelled after that!
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1-09-2009 @8:53PM Gretchen Roberts said... Sorry Alex, you busted me. I was just trying to come up with another word instead of saying "breast" over and over. Didn't think "boob" would really cut the mustard, you know!
And Gretchen, yes--that is the real thing, only it's a bowl, not a glass. The coupe-style Champagne glass was a smaller model of the original Marie Antoinette breast-shaped bowl.
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1-11-2009 @5:14PM Karen Lawrence said... http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/champagne.asp
The rumor about Champagne glasses is actually untrue. Champagne was "invented" in the 17th century, and the glass was invented in 1663. Marie Antoinette wasn't even born until 1755.
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