And this particular dress really spoke to me 'cause I didn't have any nice 1880s bustle dresses in my collection. And now it's turned into this huge story, which I had no idea it would be the ...

The 1880s-era silk bustle dress in which bits of paper containing a mysterious code were found. (Sara Rivers Cofield) By Erin Blakemore.

Sara Rivers Cofield, a vintage custome collecter bought a Victorian dress from the Maine antique mall. The dress was from the 1880s and it featured a fitted bodice, puffy bustle and lace cuffs.

The dress was a silk bustle dress from the 1880s, according to NOAA, and it was found by Sara Rivers Cofield in an antique mall in Maine in 2013. Chan also discovered that the weather observations ...

The code sheets found in the hidden pocket of an 1880s silk bustle dress. In 2022, the codes shown here were considered to be one of the top 50 unsolvable codes in the world.

Sara Rivers Cofield found a hidden pocket in this dress from the 1880s, containing what was once thought to be an unsolvable code. Sara Rivers Cofield 2024-01-09T20:31:44Z ...

Sara Rivers-Cofield purchased the bronze-colored silk bustle dress with striped rust velvet accents for $100 at an antique shop in Maine, noting on her blog that it was in a style that was ...

The Victorian dress in the Maine antique mall was unlike anything Sara Rivers Cofield had seen before. Its fitted bodice, puffy bustle and lace cuffs reflected a bygone era. As a vintage costume ...

The silk dress, which dates to the mid-1880s, in which the pieces of paper containing the code were found. They were tucked in a hidden pocket, the opening of which was hidden by an overskirt.

Although evening dresses usually had shorter sleeves and lower necklines ... The bodice is boned and the skirt was worn over a bustle which gave the angular silhouette so fashionable in the 1880s.

And this particular dress really spoke to me 'cause I didn't have any nice 1880s bustle dresses in my collection. And now it's turned into this huge story, which I had no idea it would be the ...