An Adelaide high school teacher who lost a dress made from a vintage 1970s tablecloth has been reunited with an identical fit, after an appeal on Facebook went viral.
Eleanor Russell thought her vintage dress might be gone forever, but much to her surprise she received an identical version on her 30th birthday.
Ms Russell purchased the original one-of-a-kind dress in 2018 from a vintage store in Cairns during her honeymoon.
“It has a lot of sentimental value,” Ms Russell said.
“I just felt really great in it, it was a really quirky and cool design.
“It was just very me.”
Earlier this year, Ms Russell and her husband were on their way back from a summer holiday at Port Lincoln, when she realised she had left her dress hanging in a wardrobe at the Port Lincoln Hotel.
Ms Russell said staff members were very helpful, and reviewed security vision and searched the bins in a bid to find the missing dress, but without any luck.
“It just disappeared, and I was devastated,” Ms Russell said.
“They [staff] went through so much effort trying to find it for me.
Read more here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-12/adelaide-high-school-teacher-gifted-replica-of-vintage-dress/12426904
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