The New Dress (short story)
"The New Dress" is a short story by the English author Virginia Woolf.
It was written in 1924 whilst Woolf was writing The Forum.[2] It appeared again in A Haunted House and Other Short Stories published in 1944, and in Mrs. Dalloway's Party published in 1973.
Plot
The
stream-of-consciousness
narrative concerns Mabel Waring, deeply self-conscious and insecure as she attends a party hosted by Clarissa Dalloway. Mabel's new, though old-fashioned dress symbolising her insecurity; she has gone to great care to have it made but on arrival at the party she sees it in a mirror and immediately announces to herself "No. It was not right".
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