Fabulous wedding dress for the wealthy rescued INTACT from sinking after 350 years

A spectacular dress believed to date back to the days of the English Civil War has been discovered in a sunken chest aboard a ship there 350 years ago near the Netherlands< /p> The dress is thought to have sunk aboard a Dutch merchant ship in the 1600s (

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A spectacular dress rescued from a ship believed to be sunk during the English Civil War era has been displayed.

The 350-year-old garment was found aboard an unidentified Dutch merchant ship that is believed to have sunk beneath the waves around 1650.

Its opulent design means it probably belonged to an English nobleman or Dutch merchant society.

Made of silk interlaced with silver, it was probably lightly colored until it spent centuries underwater and its wealthy owner would have worn it only on special occasions.

However, it ended up at the bottom of the Wadden Sea, off Texel in the Netherlands.

The dress is a little discolored after centuries under water (

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Anne of Denmark in similar attire in a 1605 painting (

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