This Altoona Mirror file photo shows the tables in the central section of the Butterick Company Inc. plant at Beale Avenue and 29th Street. Some 60 women are shown as they fold patterns and enclose ...

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, ...