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Our Mothers' Patterns
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Fumiko (left) and Kimiko Saito in front of their dressmaking shop at 818 Smythe Street
1 of 33 		Natsu Saito with her daughter Kimiko Saito, in front of Saito Tailor Shop at 397 Powell Street
2 of 33 		Kohei Saito at the entrance to his Tailor Shop at 397 Powell Street
3 of 33 		A pair of scissors and tweezers used by Kohei Saito at his tailor shop on Powell Street
4 of 33 		A wooden clothes hanger from the men's furnishings store Matsumiya and Nose at 229 Powell Street
5 of 33 		Two metal ring thimbles used by Kimiko Saito
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Letter to Fumiko Ezaki
7 of 33 		Advertisement for S. Tanaka's Bonnie Lass Cleaners, 'modern dressmakers,' at 4243 Dunbar Street
8 of 33 		Ryokichi (left) and Mitsu Kohara in front of Sisters Cleaners and Dressmakers
9 of 33 		Ayako Kohara (nee Yasui) in front of Sisters Cleaners and Dressmakers
10 of 33 		A cinnamon brown Harris tweed women's suit
11 of 33 		A square, ruler, and French curve used by Miyoko Takeuchi for dressmaking from the 1930s on.
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Sayoko Hattori at her sewing machine at Seabreeze Cleaners, Vancouver, ca. 1953.
13 of 33 		A page from Sayoko Hattori's pattern book, ca. 1930
14 of 33 		Pattern drawings from Sayoko Hattori's pattern book
15 of 33 		A page from Sayoko Hattori's pattern book, ca. 1930
16 of 33 		Pattern drawing from Sayoko Hattori's pattern book
17 of 33 		A page from Sayoko Hattori's pattern book, ca. 1930
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