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

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Figure 1. The Victorian-era silk dress containing coded messages in a hidden pocket (Image courtesy of Sara Rivers-Cofield).

Normally, I don’t write about clothing and fabrics, but I am a devoted fan of HBO’s splendiferous streaming…