
Late Victorians began to contemplate a bold, astonishing idea: that perhaps women might simply be free to dress… freely.
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Late Victorians began to contemplate a bold, astonishing idea: that perhaps women might simply be free to dress… freely.

Oscar Wilde On Dress
Now in a New Updated and Expanded Artisan Edition.
www.oscarwildeondress.com
Back in 2012 I rediscovered Oscar Wilde’s essay “The Philosophy of Dress” and published it the following year in a limited hardback bibliophile edition. That publication represented the essay’s first appearance in book form, and the first posthumous release of a lost work by Wilde.
I am now pleased to introduce the book in an updated and expanded softcover artisan edition.
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