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Congatulation, You're "Way Retro"

Tuesday 1 November 2005, 12:53 pm
Keywords: Humor , News Articles

In secondhand store, woman finds prom dress she made 33 years ago

Associated Press

HARRISON, Ark.

Marlene Wyatt went to a secondhand store to buy a Halloween costume last week. What she found could be just as scary: the prom dress she had made 33 years ago.

"I thought, this material looks familiar," Wyatt said. "Then I thought, 'Surely not' and finally, 'That's my dress!'"

Melissa Martin, proprietor of the Fashion Exchange, said she knew something special had happened because of the look on Wyatt's face.

"This is amazing," she said. "What are the odds of something like this happening?"

Wyatt, from Yellville, sewed the white double-knit polyester dress when she was in high school.

"We come from a large family, 12 kids," she said. "There were five girls at home at the time, so sewing my own clothes was helpful, but I always loved doing it." Wyatt said the dress has one of the first invisible zippers she ever sewed.

Martin opened the Fashion Exchange about a month ago. She doesn't remember where she got the dress, which she had labeled "Way Retro" in her inventory.

Wyatt now has it in her sewing room.