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BarKnight OP t1_j8z9199 wrote

The ship sunk in 1660 it's amazing that they are able to recover intact cloth, let alone an entire dress from the ship. I guess the cold dark water of the North Sea helped to preserve it.

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Wolverine78 t1_j8ze7b2 wrote

Fascinating , probably was en route from the Netherlands to England ? those leather book bindings with the coat of arms of Scottish-English Stuart royal family may indicate the dress belonged to them or maybe to Dutch nobility.

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Va0utdoor t1_j940a29 wrote

Yeah this one ship wreck had a hand sketched drawing of a naked woman recovered from it…. Wait that was a movie. But I agree with you, the way some things remain and can preserved is crazy

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TP70 t1_j906acm wrote

I'm dutch and this news is from November. The box was found in 2014. It took years to carefully explore the content because it is very fragile.

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ShatsnerBassoon t1_j8zcaua wrote

That dress is clearly orange.

Seriously, it's remarkable how well preserved it is.

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KayLovesPurple t1_j90kpgx wrote

There's two of them. The one from the title is not orange, but also not silver since the silver on it has decayed, but the pattern on it can still be seen (there is a pic of the dress and a pic of the pattern near the end of the article).

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Professional-Dig6481 t1_j8zan5g wrote

I think the silver preserved it since it has antibacterial properties and prob kept stuff from growing on it

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ITGenji t1_j93f2ep wrote

There was many other pieces recovered. The silver probably had very little to do with it surviving.

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Gruffstone t1_j91q0he wrote

I wonder if the owners of these treasures were on the ship that sank or would they have traveled in a more luxurious vessel.

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Tidesticky t1_j8zmjq5 wrote

Very, very cool! Hope they can suss out who the dress was going to and what she did without her dress.

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Alarmed_Scientist_15 t1_j90u643 wrote

Pretty cool but they freaking could have lit the items properly.

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TheRichTurner t1_j93pnx4 wrote

Silver? That dress looks gold to me. Does anyone else see silver?

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sheloveschocolate t1_j954xag wrote

See the silver lines? That's the silver

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TheRichTurner t1_j95dsso wrote

Sorry, I was just jokingly trying to revive the old controversy of the dress that nobody could agree the colour of from a few years back.

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