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photo: an original butterick dress pattern
photo: Butterick magazine
Ellen and Ebeneezer Butterick invented sized- dress patterns.

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1863: Ellen and Ebeneezer Butterick invent sized-dressmaker patterns. Before this invention, all patterns came in the same size. They design patterns for only men and boys for the first three years. In 1866, the couple begins designing women's dresses.

 

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