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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Alexandra Topping

UK fashion designer reunited with piece that went missing nearly 40 years ago

A woman smiles as she stands next to a dress on a dressmaker's dummy
Jean Pallant with the coat she made at her kitchen table in 1988. Photograph: Jean-Sebastien Durocher/PA

A British fashion designer said rediscovering one of her long-lost designs, which was found in an Oxfam charity shop after nearly 40 years, had been like seeing a childagain.

Jean Pallant was told the orange coat with large buttons she created at her kitchen table in 1988 had turned up in a donation bag at the Oxfam shop in Mill Hill, London.

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