Shipwrecked silk dress survives 400 years under water

Found on CNet on Friday, 15 April 2016
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The silk gown is now on display at the Kaap Skil Maritime and Beachcombers Museum on Texel Island in the Netherlands. Divers explored a wreck near the island in 2014 and found the dress buried in the sand.

The dress, woven from silk with a floral pattern, is complete and seems to have belonged to a noblewoman. The museum dates it back to the first half of the 17th century.

Now imagine how a dress made today would survive.