When an antique collector purchased an antique bustle dress from an antique store a decade ago, she brought it home from the store and found a hidden pocket with something inside.
For a decade, cryptology fans had been trying to solve something called the "Silk Dress cryptogram." Earlier this year, a Winnipeg academic figured it out.
Coded messages found in the folds of a Victorian-era dress were finally cracked by a University of Manitoba researcher almost a decade after they were discovered.