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Sayoko Hattori's children wearing clothing she has sewn for them1943
Lillooet, BC
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Kimiko Nasu's (nee Saito) wedding gown1946
Toronto, ON
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Detail of thirty lace covered buttons on back of Kimiko Nasu's wedding gown1946
Toronto, ON
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Blue grey crepe party dress sewn by Kimiko Nasu1948
Toronto, ON
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Back view of blue grey crepe party dress designed and sewn by Kimiko Nasu1948
Toronto, ON
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Sawae NishikihamaGrace Eiko Thomson remembers her mother Sawae Nishikihama was always dressmaking when Grace was growing up from the 1940s through the 1960s.
"I remember she would take a roll of brown paper and with a flourish she'd roll it out on the floor, and set to measuring out the pattern with her wooden square. She would make all her patterns from scratch, drawing them full scale on the brown paper."
"For us, her daughters, she made us gowns for the proms we went to. She'd look in Vogue magazine and find what was stylish that would suit us, and she'd say, 'This would look really good on you;' and then she would make it. We'd look glamourous."
From a conversation with Grace Eiko Thomson, 2003.
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Bone hera and wooden handled brass tracing roller used by Sawae Nishikihama1930
Vancouver, BC
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Detail of wooden scales used by Sawae Nishikihama1930
Vancouver, BC
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Sketch and pattern for child's dress taken from Sawae Nishikihama second pattern book1940
Vancouver, BC
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Evening gown sketch and pattern taken from Sawae Nishikihama's second pattern book1940
Vancouver, BC
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Lay out pattern guide from Sawae Nishikihama's first pattern book1940
Vancouver, BC
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Sketch and pattern for a mid length women's coat1940
Vancouver, BC
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Sketch and women's coat pattern from Sawae Nishikihama's first pattern book1940
Vancouver, BC
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Sketch and women's evening dress pattern from Sawae Nishikihama's first pattern book1940
Vancouver, BC
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