The unique design was found in an Oxfam shop after it went missing from the designer's warehouse.
A British fashion designer says she is "over the moon" that one of her long-lost designs was found in an Oxfam charity shop nearly 40 years after it went missing from the designer's warehouse.
"The very first second I saw the coat I knew this was something special, so I checked the label and after a quick Google found Jean's email," Ms Ikey-Botchway said."It was very sweet of the person who discovered it to believe that it was something important," Ms Pallant said. "It's like seeing a child. It's lovely.
When she went to retrieve some pieces from her warehouse nearly four decades ago, she felt "sick" to discover that the coat had gone missing along with five other pieces she had designed with her husband Martin, who died recently. "It doesn't look as if it's ever been worn, so I'm thrilled about that as well. It doesn't look like a rag.
She said: "I'd love those to turn up. There are some really special pieces that I'd like back in our collection for our archive. Maybe they'll turn up, who knows?
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