This woman's 147-year-old wedding dress went missing and the internet found it

Despite incessant trolling and other atrocities, social media does have its uses. Recent bride Tess Newall certainly knows this.

After choosing to wear a 147-year-old wedding dress made by great-great-grandmother Dora, Tess took the lacy design to a dry cleaners in Edinburgh.

Unfortunately, the business soon went into liquidation and told Tess that her precious dress had been lost. Tess believed it may have been sold so took to Facebook to ask for help in the case of the missing vintage dress.

“I realise there are far greater issues in the world but it means the world to use. More family memories need to be woven into its threads,” she wrote. The internet did not disappoint, racking up over 300,000 shares on Tess’s plea.

In a stroke of luck, the landlord of the shop property saw the post and got in touch with Tess and her family after finding a “crumpled heap of antique lace on the floor.”

This was in fact the family heirloom Tess had been searching for, proving that the dry cleaners had been lying when they told her that her 1870s era dress was nowhere to be found.

Now, Tess is free to pass the dress onto her children if she so wishes.

The power of the internet strikes again.

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