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The Lost Dress of Elizabeth I (Original Post)
struggle4progress
Sep 2019
OP
I like the videos of how people dressed in different eras, so this was a treat!
Karadeniz
Sep 2019
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northoftheborder
(7,623 posts)1. Fascinating discovery!
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)2. Must kick for later
murielm99
(31,842 posts)3. Wonderful story!
LudwigPastorius
(12,220 posts)4. Did she lose it behind the dirty clothes hamper?
Sometimes I overshoot it too.
More_Cowbell
(2,217 posts)5. Or it was hanging on her exercise cycle nt
LudwigPastorius
(12,220 posts)10. Ye Olde Peloton?
That sounds about right. They always end up as a clothes rack.

struggle4progress
(122,772 posts)7. She gave it to her maid, who donated it to the family church
where it was converted into an altar cloth, which was finally put on display, until conservation work revealed it was originally an incredibly expensive sixteenth century dress
marble falls
(64,746 posts)8. It was a laundry slip-up.
LudwigPastorius
(12,220 posts)9. Ah...the dry cleaners lost it.
I've been there.
Karadeniz
(24,216 posts)6. I like the videos of how people dressed in different eras, so this was a treat!
zentrum
(9,867 posts)11. Kick.