When a friend invited New Yorker Brenna Sinnott to a Tupperware party last month, she was skeptical. “I pictured all those old green containers my mom had,” says the 24-year-old. “I didn’t really know what to expect.” To her surprise, there wasn’t a stodgy storage container in sight at the party. But the ruby-rimmed plates on which the crudites were served, the glasses the hostess filled with Chardonnay, the stainless-steel fondue pot in which guests dipped marshmallows and fruit into melted chocolate—all these were available in the catalogs that sales consultant Tinamarie Engel handed out. By the end of the evening, Sinnott and her friends had placed orders totaling nearly $600. “This was definitely not your mother’s Tupperware,” says Sinnott, who works at a Manhattan publishing house. “I had no idea how cool the products would be.”
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