Experts in vintage clothing at a UK thrift store stumbled on an amazing discovery in a shipment: a handmade, hand-embroidered leather jacket believed to have ties to indigenous Red River Canada.
Alice Leadbetter, head of marketing at Glass Onion vintage store in South Yorkshire, told The Epoch Times, “When I held the jacket I was amazed. Over the 15 years Glass Onion has been in business, we’ve come across plenty of rare, super special items, but none with such social and historical significance. It’s potentially one of the oldest pieces we’ve ever found, too!”
It was Alice’s colleague Sophie, one of the store’s expert vintage graders, who first spotted the unusual garb in June while sorting through a shipment of vintage, fringed jackets from their U.S. supplier. With her ten-plus years of experience working with rare and antique items, Sophie knew from the style, the age of the fabric, and the detailed floral beading on the front and shoulders that the jacket was something special….