《新礼服》是吴尔夫写于1927年的一个短篇小说。作品没有什么情节,只是描述梅宝参加一次宴会的心情。梅宝是一个小职员的妻子,却一心想挤进时髦社会,可是又力不从心。为了参加一次宴会,她煞费苦心,仿效她母亲一辈时代流行过的服装式样,设计了一件衣服,想独创一格,以此来掩盖自己的寒酸,不料,这与整个气氛全不合拍,因而感到十分地尬。作者运用意识流手法,通过陶乐威太太客厅里镜子中的影子,碟子里爬动的苍蝇,从女裁缝唇间啄食的金丝雀,成衣店的模特儿等种种形象与微琐而有启示性的细节揭示了人物内心深层的活动和那种脆弱、敏感的苦涩,虚荣、屈辱的困窘等情绪感受,把人物的家庭、社会、生活环境、现实与梦想、过去与现在汇流在一起,准确细致地表现了她的精神状态,创造了梅宝这一鲜明形象,使读者感到其人可笑亦复可怜。作者最后以“襄在一件穿了二十年的中国式大衣里”的淡淡一笔,幽默而又不无同情地为人物襄上一层浓郁的哀怨。 New Dress is a short story written by Wolf in 1927. No plot plot, just describe the Meibao to participate in a banquet mood. Mei Bao is the wife of a clerk, but bent on squeezing into fashion society, but unable to do anything. In order to attend a banquet, she took great pains to imitate the style of clothing popular with her mother’s generation, designed a piece of clothing, and wanted to create a style to cover up her shabbiness. Unexpectedly, it was totally out of step with the atmosphere and thus Feel very awkward. The author uses the method of stream of consciousness, through the shadow of Mrs. Loew’s wife in the living room mirror, the flies crawling in the dish, the canaries pecking at the seamstress’s lips, the model of the clothing store, etc., The revelatory details reveal emotions such as deep-seated activities in the mind and the fragile, sensitive bitterness, vanity, embarrassment of humiliation, confluence of the family, society, living environment, reality and dream, past and present, Accurate and meticulous performance of her mental state, creating a distinctive Maipo image, so that readers feel ridiculous pitiful. The author finally “hides in a Chinese-style coat that has been worn for twenty years,” with a touch of humor and compassion.