Bermuda shorts are ubiquitous in any polished wardrobe, but the Bermuda jacket?

Stylish waiter Sandro found a discarded Corporation of Hamilton tunic at a warehouse party in East London and claimed it for his own.

Liana Hall, Alia Hamza and Catherine White were having dinner at a Mexican restaurant in Dalston when they met the “handsome” stranger.

The Italian-Swiss waiter guessed that the group was from North America, but the three Bermudians corrected him.

“When we told him, he said, “I have a jacket from Bermuda’,” Ms Hall recalled.

“We asked if he’d been there before and he said, ‘no’. He came over to us wearing it and I thought it was brilliant. It actually looked very stylish with what he was wearing.”

Sandro has been working in London for eight years and wears the navy jacket frequently.

He said people often admire it and ask what “Corporation of Hamilton” means. Tired of replying “no idea”, he eventually he looked it up online.

“He was happy to pose for photos with us,” Ms Hall said. “It was amazing how so many variables came together that we would discover this man and his love for a Corporation of Hamilton employee’s jacket.

“That jacket has quite the international existence.”

A keen second-hand shopper herself, Ms Hall said her best vintage find was a 3.1 Philip Lim coat that she found in a London charity shop for £19.

She credits a labelling error for her good fortune. Incorrect sizing meant the piece may have been overlooked by others. “It had never been worn and when I looked it up online it was selling for well over £800. I suppose the mislabelling meant people didn’t even take a glance at it. Their loss, my gain.”

Mayor of Hamilton, Charles Gosling, said he “never would have ditched the jacket had [he] known its effect on the local girls”.

He added that he has received reports at Gosling’s that someone has been claiming to be him all over London, trying to get free rum drinks — “Mystery solved”.

The Corporation confirmed that the jacket appears to be a vintage one and could fetch a hefty haul for someone on eBay.

“This could then be donated back to the Corporation as a gesture of goodwill to help service the City’s debts — every little bit helps,” a spokesperson said.

Ms Hall said she and her friends weren’t particularly surprised to find a Bermuda connection in East London.

“I often run into Bermudians on the streets of London and it’s always wonderful reconnecting with home but the most interesting encounter came with a girl named Robyn,” she said.

“I kept running into her over and over again with mutual friends and at parties. She told me she was from Bermuda originally, but that she had moved to the UK when she was much younger after her parents had passed away. Her last name was Bean, so I figured there was no relation.

“A couple of times when I was out, people would call me by Robyn’s name and, when I’d correct them, they’d say we look alike. I didn’t give it much thought.

“After three years, as I was chatting to a friend about family, a memory surfaced of my dad’s half-brother Mackie’s daughter. An image of us playing together when we were children came to my mind very vividly and the hair on my arms stood on end as I remembered my long lost cousin’s name. It was Robyn.

“This girl who re-entered my life in the loneliness of London has become one of my best friends.

“We’re no longer just strangers who share a family tree, but a person I can truly call my kin.”