![]() She has had a yellow silk dress made by her dressmaker, Miss Milan, from a pattern in an old fashion magazine of her mother, which she feels reflect her character (3). Upon accepting the fact that she does not have the same means as high-society women and cannot afford a fashionable dress, laudable by others. She scolds herself for deciding, "why not be original? Why not be herself, anyhow?"(2). Mabel obsesses over what other guests, all voguishly dressed, must be thinking about her new dress and pictures them being appalled over it. So, after greeting the cordial hostess, she rushes to a mirror at the back of the room to eye herself and is consumed with despair at the belief that there is something definitely wrong with the dress, although she has no clue as to what the problem is. These depressing feelings are triggered by apprehension that her new yellow dress is not suitable for the party, which is thrown by her wealthy and socially distinguished friend, Clarissa Dalloway. Barnet, passes it to her "perhaps rather markedly"(1), and is unexpectedly flooded with strong feelings of shortcoming, mediocrity and fear. She removes her cloak, catches sight of herself in the mirror after the servant, Mrs. In Virginia Woolf's 1924 short story The New Dress the main protagonist, middle-aged Mabel Waring, arrives at a high-society London party. ![]()
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