The little brown dress is missing!

What started as one woman’s blog and developed into a widely publicised anti-fashion phenomenon has ended with a bizarre kidnapping of the much-adored “little brown dress that could”.

From 7 July 2005 to 7 July 2006, Seattle-based choreographer Alex Martin donned a brown dress of her own design. She danced in the dress, she threw snowballs in the dress, she played with her son in the pool in her dress. Then, for a final hurrah, 300 people joined her for a brown dress farewell party. After dancing for the crowd, Alex took off the dress and left it on the stage for partygoers to see.

Only, someone took off with it! Now the mystery dress theif is sending her photos of the captive drowning in a pool of water, visiting the space needle and {gasp} in the hands of a thrift shop worker.

The little brown dress may never be seen again.

Any ransom offers, or plain comments, may be sent to the theif’s e-mail account: littlebrowndress@gmail.com