Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-29

across the night skyline in the larg-
est illuminated sign in the world,
above the building that turns out mil
lions of Butterick patterns year.
But Ebenezer Butterick himself at
first had no notion of botherins about
women'S clothes. Al his tailor shop
he conceived the idea for n set OF
mems graded shirt patterns. made
from stiff paper. These were first put
on the market June l6. 1863, when he
nearby town of F'itchburg Here ut
their home No. Al Grove street. his
wife offered The suggestion which.
after due elaboration that winters
evening. he decided was n good one.
The pattern for Ellen Buttericks'
haby's Bingham dress was drafted and
Graded. From measurements taken on
Clarence Butterick. u small nephew.
the pattern for a little Garibald suit
was also made. 40 The next consi;n-
mont of shirt patterns sent ont these
were added. all OF the patterns now
cut from thin tissue paper. and put
UP In little bundles bearing neatly
printed labeled directions. The folding
and packing were done for n time by
the family with the assistance of rela-
tives But the business grew rapidly.
and soon it was removed from tho
house In Grove street to the disused
academy building in Eitchburg.
A metropolitan connection seemed
desirable Some time In 1864 Mr..
Butterick opened New York sales
office in two rooms at 192 Broadway.
popular.
1t was to illustrate the fashions OF
forty years ago that The Delineator
was started We may turn the yellow
pages Of musty old magazines and find
l.t.. tA,..r = ~ N.NYN
these first Delineator5 were made.
The promenade of the day was along
Broadway about Canal street. Hero
ultra fashionable feminity walked
with the mincing gait that was styled
the "Grccian bend" They wore green
gloves. and carried green sun-shades.
"Mctternich green" because tho
Princess Metternich had appeared at
a ball ut the Tuileries in II dress OF
this hue. Little girls In gabrielle
dresses and white Marseilles sun-hats
went by with their nurses. And among
them tho little girls who had come
from the country were still wearing
pantalettcs. Matrons wore bonnets tied
| beneath their chins and modestly
| folded their shawls about them. Black
lace shaws they had for summer, and
| Paisley and Cashmere shawls for
| cooler weather. They paid for these
alI the way from fifty dollars to several
hundred or thousand. An import
ed point lace shawl was even quoted
at $4,000.
oh, feminine finery could he expen-
sivc In those days as now! 1t Is in
teresting to note tho items which nm
old Dclinentor gives as the cost of II
girl of the period: Boots. $40: stock
ings. So garters, 30 cents: silk un-
derwcar, $50: satin corset. $50; corset
cover, Sl2 chemise. SEQ: cambria
and steel hoops, $40; puffed haircloth
pannier. 81: flannel underskirt, $40;
next to hoop. IS. over walking skirt.
$40; gloves $225: sun and snow
shade in lace, $1a5: velvet walking
suit, lace and sable trimmed, $1,000;
hat, SIS; total s1,396.25.
But those undoubtedly were very
high society figures, and higher be-
cause of the paper money OF the day.
Anyhow. the majority OF the throng
moving up and down lower Broadway
lar or less and their hoopskirts ranged
in price from 81 to SIC. Their alrncas
cost from 40 cents to S1.25 yard
English lnsoys from 81 cents to 75
cents, and French poplins, s2.75 n
yard. For their black silks they could
pay from 50 to rs high ms $40 a yard.
But n black silk did" MS best
dress for lifetime.
These shoppers purchasing their
dress goods and trimmings at the
leading dry-goods stores. Invariably
stopIred for Buttcrlck pattern Mt
$50 Broadway. This was the quaint
little two-story and attic red brick,
hip-roofcd house to which Mr.. Buffers
lex had removed the pattern head
quarters