Lauren Hodgins first remembers seeing the green brocade gown she will wear to her high school prom this Saturday when she was a little girl, living on a farm outside of Craven, Sask.

The full-length formal gown was kept inside a garment bag tucked away in a closet at her parent’s home. It hadn’t been worn for decades, not since her grandmother Phyllis Schwann donned it in the 1960s for one of the many formal events she attended alongside her husband, Dr. Paul Schwann, a pioneer in sports medicine in Saskatchewan who died in 1974.

Hodgins said the dress was one of many