"The New Dress" is a short story by the English author Virginia Woolf.
It was written in 1924 whilst Woolf was writing Mrs. Dalloway (which was published the following year). It is possible that it was originally to have been a chapter in the novel; the two share some characters and events.[1][better source needed] It was not published until 1927 when it appeared in the May edition of 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.