A woman has told RTE's Joe Duffy of her devastation after forgetting the dress she was planning to wear to her daughter's wedding on an Irish Rail train.
Leitita Hill is now desperately trying to find out the whereabouts of her "dream outfit" after losing it on a train from Dublin to Cork on Tuesday.
The UCC Youth and Community student believes she left the dress behind in the overhead storage space.
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She and her daughter bought the special dress in February, when the pair visited Brown Thomas in Dublin and spotted the stunning pink Hobbs number which retails for around €250, Cork Beo reports.
Leitita had gone back to Dublin, where her daughter lives, bringing the dress to lingerie store Peaches and Cream in order to purchase the "right underwear to go with it."
She explained she needed to try on the dress while underwear shopping to avoid any "lumps and bumps under it."
After Leitita arrived home to Cork, it was only when she was heading to bed when she realised she had left the train empty-handed.
"Totally exhausted, I was on my way up the stairs and I realised 'Where's my dress?'," the frustrated mother told RTE's Liveline on Wednesday.
With her daughter's wedding planned for Thursday 12th May, she said she is desperate to get the mother-of-the-bride frock back.
"I flew into Kent station here in Cork," she said, "But it wasn't handed in."
Leitita said she has spent the morning "ringing up the country" in an attempt to track down her precious gown.
She told Joe Duffy that the dress is her "perfect fit, this is why I'm so upset that it's gone missing."
"I wouldn't even know where to start," she said, saying she doesn't want to replace her dream outfit.
The dress is a pale pink shift dress - the Ana shift dress, designed by Hobbs of London and Leitita said that she hasn't been able to find another online.
"I was up all night searching, but they don't have it in a size 12," she explained.
Leitita went into Brown Thomas here in Cork this morning to try and find a replacement, to no avail.
"Iarnród Éireann have been very helpful, but, you know, it wasn't handed in," said Leitita,
"It's one of these dresses that you'd only wear for an occasion, so I want to believe it's no use to anyone else."
She added that if she saw someone in Cork wearing the dress that she would "probably" be suspicious and ask if it was hers.
The pink dress was in a pink gift bag and Leitita is certain that there is no way someone could have grabbed it by mistake.
"But the thing is, I know I was the last off the train, so it would've either gone back to Dublin, and I've tried (ringing) different stations along the way, in case somebody got it and got off along the way."
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