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and experimenting with various fabrics in her free time as a dancer when she exchanged a toaster for a sewing machine. At the time, other dancers in the company took notice and soon began asking for custom body suits of their own. Takeshima founded the dancewear brand YUMIKO in 2002 which has stores
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