Tale of the silken ‘dumpster dress’

Castlemaine's Peter Bottomley alongside the silken 1930s wedding dress that gained international media attention after it was salvaged from a rubbish skip in the nick of time, and some of the other wedding day treasures in the Bloye Collection. Photo: Eve Lamb

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Tale of the silken ‘dumpster dress’

Eve Lamb Ever since the tale of the ‘dumpster dress’ made the ABC and the BBC a few weeks back, […]


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