Full title:Toshiko Torii and a fellow worker are putting the final touches to a dress in an exclusive New York custom shop where Miss Torii has been employed as a finisher since coming East in February 1944, from the Jerome Relocation Center. Prior to evacuation in May, 1942, from Hanford, California, to the Fresno Assembly Center, Miss Torii was a private dressmaker. Following her arrival at Jerome in November, 1942, she taught sewing and drafting in adult education classes there. Prior to evacuation she herself had studied fashion design at the Milady Sewing School in Fresno and the Academy of Fashion Design in San Francisco. She is a graduate of Clovis, California, Union High School. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Yorinari Torri, are still living in Jerome. Her brother Yorio is in Ann Arbor, Michigan.<lb /> New York, New York. Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement
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