The New Dress and Other Stories

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As Mabel Waring takes off her cloak and steps into the drawing room of Clarissa Dalloway, she immediately realizes that something is not right: her pale-yellow silk dress, which she hashad specially made for the occasion, is clearly old-fashioned, dowdy and out of place. Everyoneseems to be looking at her in dismay or mocking her appearance. Crushed at once by herinsecurity, Mabel is pervaded by a sense of self-loathing, and feels utter revulsion for the socialworld she has tried so hard to impress.Written in 1924 and perhaps intended for inclusion in Mrs Dalloway, a book Woolf was workingon at the time, The New Dress is here accompanied by most of the short stories she publishedin her lifetime and six other posthumously published narratives that share the milieu and someof the characters of her celebrated novel. Together, they reveal their author as one of the finestpractitioners in the field of short fiction.