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.
Ms Pallant, who was part of the 1960s cultural revolution and designed clothes with her husband Martin, who died recently, said she was "very excited" by the find. "I was absolutely over the moon, really. It was very sweet of the person who discovered it to believe that it was something important," she said.
"It's like seeing a child. It's lovely. I know every single square inch of it, and I'm absolutely amazed that it looks so new, and it feels new.
Everything about it looks exactly as it did when it went missing." Read more from Sky News: Lewis Hamilton opens up about mental health struggles SpaceX takes off to rescue stranded astronauts More on Fashion 'I was not in control': Naomi Campbell defends her role after she was banned from being charity trustee Struggling Burberry paves way to find chair's successor Activewear brand TALA lands £5m funding boost from top investors Related Topics: Fashion Oxfam She made the coat, which has large, round dark buttons, on her kitchen table in 1988 and it featured in a .