By: Oscar Wilde 

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This costume plot is a “suggested” design interpretation of your production and may differ greatly from the Costume World stock. To guarantee a costume selection that is in closest possible accordance with your specifications, our Designer/Costumer will advise you of the costume options currently available.

A flat in Half-Moon Street, London, and the Manor House, Woolton; May 1895

John Worthing: 28, a young man-about-town:

• Jacket, vest, pants, shirt, tie, straw hat (of a light and colorful sort) The whole effect is quite fashionable.
• Charcoal tailcoat, striped pants, gray vest, cravat and top hat with crepe swathe - he is in deepest mourning
• Striped blazer, white pants, shirt, tie, straw hat - suitable for an afternoon in the country

Lady Bracknell: A gorgon of the sternest sort

• Dress, petticoat, hat, and short summer cape. She is at the height of fashion and ornamentation.
• Traveling suit, blouse, hat, petticoat - equally formidable

Gwendolen Fairfax: her daughter:

• Dress, hat, petticoat - she is "very smart", in fact, "quite perfect" - but not so extremely fashionable that she is not very charming
• Traveling suit, blouse, hat, petticoat - all quite chic and charming

Algernon Moncrieff: Lady Bracknell's nephew:

• Jacket, vest, pants, shirt, tie, straw hat, smoking jacket and ascot. The same sort as Jack's
• Striped blazer, white pants, shirt, tie, straw hat - suitable for Bun burying in the countryside

Cecily Cardew: John's ward, must 18

• Dress, petticoat, gardening pinafore. A youthful appearance, but still quite stylish and very feminine.

Miss Prism: her Governess

• Blouse, skirt, petticoat. A very sensible and simple outfit

Rev. Frederick Chasuble: a village rector:

• Frock coat, vest, pants, white shirt, dark cravat or Roman collar, (specify cravat or collar)

Lane: Al-gy's manservant:

• Coat, striped vest, black pants, white shirt, tie - typical butler's garb

Merriman and Footman: servants at the Manor House:

• (Each, if cast as men) Similar to Lane
• (Each, if cast as women) Skirt, striped blouse, pinafore apron, mob cap,
• petticoat - a perky maid's getup

General Note: The men's garb is of the fitted, boldly patterned sort in vivid, but not garish colors. The ladies wear the exaggerated mutton sleeves of the period, fitted waists and smoothly flowing skirts. These costumes do not include fans, reticules, parasols, leather hand bags or cucumber sandwiches