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Business: Patterns

No one knows whether it was Ebenezer Butterick or his smart wife Ellen who invented the standardized paper pattern for clothes. Plodding, methodical Ebenezer, seventh son of a Sterling, Mass, ...
For monopolizing 40% of feminine attention and boycotting other dictators of dress, the Butterick Co. and five other dress pattern concerns affiliated with it through consolidations or joint stock ...