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Woman offers $19,000 to designers willing to make a 'bespoke ball gown' out of dead mother's hair

The woman, who chose to remain anonymous, said she had been collecting the hair for four years and that she wanted to commemorate the one year anniversary of her mother's passing

Sewport, a clothing designer in London, often gets unique and odd requests of clothing designs from patrons, but it looks like one anonymous woman's eclectic taste has trumped them all. Identified as only a 61-year-old woman hailing from Bristol, she wrote about how she was looking for a dressmaker who is able to create a "bespoke ball gown" with design features using her dead mother's hair.

She revealed how she had collected the hair over a period of four years and that she was going as far as to offer any skilled designer willing to take up what she herself described as an "admittedly quite weird request" £15,000 ($19,300) to manufacture the gown. Stumped by the post, Sewport posted a screenshot of her project description so those interested could take it up.