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Our Mothers' Patterns
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Piece of silk salvaged from a kimono brought to Canada from Japan (nee Watanabe)
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Detail of a piece of silk.
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Portrait of the Mission Bukkyo Fujin Kai  (Buddhist Women's Association) Sewing Club, in 1932.
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Portrait of the Mission Bukkyo Fujin Kai (Buddhist Women's Association) Sewing Club, 1935.
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Portrait of the Mission Bukkyo Fujin Kai (Buddhist Women's Association) Sewing Club, ca. 1940.
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Young women in front of the Girls' College of Practical Arts
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Students of the Marietta School of Costume Design
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Fumiko (left) and Kimiko Saito in front of their dressmaking shop at 818 Smythe Street
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Natsu Saito with her daughter Kimiko Saito, in front of Saito Tailor Shop at 397 Powell Street
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Kohei Saito at the entrance to his Tailor Shop at 397 Powell Street
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Ryokichi (left) and Mitsu Kohara in front of Sisters Cleaners and Dressmakers
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Ayako Kohara (nee Yasui) in front of Sisters Cleaners and Dressmakers
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Sayoko Hattori's children wearing clothing she has sewn for them
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Bay Farm Sewing Club, Slocan, BC, 1945. Odamura Family Collection, JCNM.
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Dressmaking class portrait, Tashme, BC, May 1944. Mary Fumiko Ikeda Otto Collection, JCNM.
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Dressmaking class portrait
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Portrait of the Academy of Domestic Arts at Greenwood, BC, in 1945. Courtesy Ruth Hamaguchi.
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Portrait of the sewing class at East Lillooet, BC, ca. 1945. Courtesy Yosh Kariatsumari.
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