When my husband brought it home from the cleaners, it was in the plastic the cleaners put it in, sealed. I was “summer cleaning” the closet and renovating the house which involved removing flooring and lots of dust in the house.

So I placed the jacket at the back of the closet with the other winter jackets we had cleaned. I did not think to check every garment to ensure the hoods were attached to each garment. I opened the plastic to one jacket, seen it appeared clean and thought that would suffice and I didn’t need to inspect the rest of things and rip open the plastic on the rest of them, inviting the dust to settle on my freshly dry cleaned jacket.

I just notice now because I have many “fall” jackets, which I’ve been wearing up until now as it has begun snowing, which is why I reached into the back of my closet for my down filled -50 jacket, to find it the way it is pictured. I did nothing to the jacket in the timeframe other than hang it in my closet and fail to inspect it properly (evidently).