The orange coat was discovered in a donation bag at a branch in Mill Hill, northwest London.
A British fashion designer has been reunited with a piece that went missing almost 40 years ago after the garment was found in a charity shop. Jean Pallant said she was 'over the moon' when she was told the one-of-a-kind orange coat had turned up in a donation bag at the Oxfam store in Mill Hill, northwest London. Shop manager Marina Ikey-Botchway made the discovery among high street fashion clothes and said she could immediately tell the garment was a priceless item.
' Read more from Sky News:Lewis Hamilton opens up about mental health strugglesSpaceX takes off to rescue stranded astronauts She made the coat, which has large, round dark buttons, on her kitchen table in 1988 and it featured in a Sunday Telegraph article that year. But she felt 'sick' to discover the garment had gone missing, along with five other pieces which have still not been found, when she went to retrieve some clothes from her warehouse nearly four decades ago.
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