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UK fashion designer reunited with piece that went missing nearly 40 years ago
Jean Pallant says return of long-lost coat, spotted in a pile of Oxfam donations, was like seeing a child again
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. Photograph: Gabi Torres/PAPallant was part of the 1960s cultural revolution alongside her husband, Martin, and is restoring and curating a Pallant collection to give to the V&A Museum in London. It was worn by me in a TV fashion show to celebrate Britain joining the common market and it was a beautiful white jumpsuit and jacket with little mink spots on it.
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