The New Dress

A yellow dress. A party full of strangers. A spiral of self-doubt.

In The New Dress, Virginia Woolf delivers a powerful psychological portrait of Mabel Waring—a woman whose excitement about wearing a new yellow dress quickly unravels into shame, anxiety, and self-loathing at a high-society gathering. With haunting detail and stream-of-consciousness brilliance, Woolf captures the inner turmoil of a woman confronting social pressure, insecurity, and the harsh gaze of others ??.

This edition includes annotations and critical insights that illuminate the story's themes of gender, identity, and perception—perfect for students, feminists, and fans of modernist fiction.

"Woolf renders a whole world from a single emotion." — The Modernist Review
"A haunting short story that will stay with you long after it ends." — The Guardian

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