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Woman tries on suitcase full of grandma's clothes untouched from 70 years ago

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TikTok after she found a suitcase full of her grandmother's honeymoon outfits and decided to try them on. Marie D'Allesandro Donato and Anthony James Donato tied the knot in 1952 before packing their bags and heading to New York City.

When they returned, Marie washed the clothes and put them back in the suitcase.They remained there untouched for over 70 years – before her 27-year-old granddaughter, Maddy Bill found them.

Maddy decided to try them on and record the results in a series of videos on TikTok, showing herself and her grandmother wearing the same clothes – and quickly went viral.The series of clips gained more than 1million likes and was captioned: "My grandmother kept all her honeymoon clothes in this suitcase to this day.

Opening it up 70 years later."Marie explained that her gran wanted to preserve her favourite memories by keeping the clothes.The gran said: "The excitement of the future ahead was what my honeymoon meant to me. "I guess, in a way, I wanted to save that feeling in the suitcase for my daughters and their daughters."The first outfit Maddy tried on was a black, button-down dress, which her grandma had worn out to dinner during the honeymoon.Maddy then tried an outfit for the train ride from Pennsylvania to New York, which included a black and white, striped shirt and a grey jacket and skirt.

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