150-year-old wedding dress found thanks to Facebook
Updated | By East Coast Breakfast
Have you ever lost something special and irreplaceable? Read how this beautiful dress was found thanks to social media forces
Tess was the last person to wear this antique lace gown when she married husband Alfred Newall, 30, in June 2016. Months later after her wedding, she took her dress to the dry cleaners but something tragic happened.
This beautifully embroidered 150-year-old hand-made antique wedding gown is a family heirloom from the 1870s that belonged to the great-great-grandmother of Newall. The dress went missing when the dry cleaning business she took the dress to closed down permanently as a result of bankruptcy last year.
She posted the tragic story on Facebook, and 200,000 shares later something amazing happened:
The powerr of socia media!
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