The story does make me love social media, though.

I’ve seen several examples over the past couple of years, of valuable items,
said to be lost, being found once somebody made it their business to really
really look for them.

By the way, my first job was in a dry cleaners. We did take care, but even so,
if items disappeared it was usually because the hanger had gotten mixed up
with another customer’s order, and so was taken out of the store. So, there
really wasn’t much point in looking in the store for it. I wonder if that
was the attitude held by the first people to search for it. If they were
thinking “nah, it’s not here” they’re not going to find it.

And when I read the article, it seemed to me the owner might have put the
dress aside, as a special item, and that’s why it was overlooked. A couple
of years ago my sister-in-law gave me my mother’s wedding dress. She had had
it smashed up in a bag for 30 years since Mom died. Then she took it to be
cleaned and pressed - the cleaner said he spent a month just looking at it,
wondering how to go about cleaning it, before the deadline loomed and he went
ahead and did his best. I bet the cleaner did something like that in this
case, too.

Glad to hear she’s going to a specialist with it now.

Adele
West Vancouver, BC


> On Feb 12, 2017, at 9:55 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, the story supports the fact that people who like lace are not
“mainstream” since the owner, and we, assumed it had been stolen with the
idea in mind that it would be sold by the nefarious thieves because it is an
object of value. The real story is that it lay on the floor of an abandoned
building where it was mistaken for detritus.

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