charity shop dress

A Frank Usher beaded dress from the charity shop for a pittance.....damaged.... so I wanted it to strip off the beads. It was a size 12 shift with cap sleeves. Finally got around to doing it. Cut it into small pieces and tackled it while watching TV. Soon got into a rhythm.... all that is left of the dress,name label, two shoulder pads and the beads.......

it soon turned into 1Ib 12ozs of beads. Wearing it must have been a nightmare...or maybe it was like a mini workout ! a 10cm square had a quarter of an ounce of beads which added up to 808 beads. They were hand sewn with a back stitch.......probably by young Indian boys in a sweatshop....808 beads stitched to a 10cm square .................for a pittance.....wonder how long it took them to do a whole dress........and how much they got ? Did the charity shop get more for a damaged dress than they did for sewing it?