Forbes

Cracking The Silk Dress Cryptogram Hidden In Bennett’s Bronze Bustle

This silk dress actually contained encoded messages that provide a time portal where we learn about the history of weather forecasting on America’s frontiers in the 1880s Figure 1. The Victorian-era ...
Ars Technica

Someone finally cracked the “Silk Dress cryptogram” after 10 years

In December 2013, a curator and archaeologist purchased an antique silk dress with an unusual feature: a hidden pocket that held two sheets of paper with mysterious coded text written on them. People ...
Business Insider

A mysterious note was discovered in the secret pocket of a dress from the 1880s. A decade later, someone finally cracked the code.

An archeologist found a silk dress from the 1800s with a hidden pocket concealing a secret code. A code breaker recently figured out the code was for telegraphed weather reports. Who owned the dress ...
CNN

A woman bought a vintage dress at an antique store. It had a secret pocket with a mysterious note

The Victorian dress in the Maine antique mall was unlike anything Sara Rivers Cofield had seen before. Its fitted bodice, puffy bustle and lace cuffs reflected a bygone era. As a vintage costume ...