Sumi Okamoto's Wedding Dress

ID: 4322 ~ Source: Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture

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This file appears in: Arrests at the Desert Hotel
Sumi Okamoto's Wedding Dress

In a 2007 interview Okamoto described her wedding as "a traditionally western ceremony...Everything was just American." The dress you see here is held with the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture.

This file appears in: Arrests at the Desert Hotel

By Anna Harbine
Sumi Yoshida and Joe Okamoto thought that December 7, 1941 was supposed a day that would live forever—in celebration. It was on that day the Japanese-American couple planned their wedding at the Desert Hotel, now the site of the Davenport Towers.…