Dress Lecture

November 12, 2025December 1, 2025 Oscar Wilde Blog2 Comments

Free Online Lecture

Oscar Wilde on Dress
by John Cooper

DATE: Saturday, December 6 at 2pm EST
(Eastern Standard Time in the US is five hours behind GMT)

Click here to Register: Zoom Webinar.

Welcome to the sixth season of online lectures presented by the Victorian Society in America inspired by their internationally-acclaimed Summer Schools.

This season’s speakers will address a wide variety of subjects including Los Angeles in the Victorian era, the evolution of resort architecture, Oscar Wilde’s philosophy on dress and fashion, a behind-the-scenes look at the preservation of Gilded Age Newport, the Saturday Evening Girls’ club and the Paul Revere Pottery, and the work of British preservationist and architectural historian Gavin Stamp.

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Oscar Wilde On Dress (2025)

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

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On Dress

October 4, 2025 Oscar Wilde Blog2 Comments

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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