Butterick Co. v. Federal Trade Commission

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

The industry affected by this order has for its purpose the enabling of a woman to purchase a pattern for a dress or other piece of wearing apparel, and to use it as a pattern upon a sufficient amount of material to make the article in her own home, thus avoiding the outside tailoring or purchasing of ready-made garments. This, it is said, reduces the cost of women’s garments- very materially. She contributes her own labor and skill, using the pattern as a guide. The manufacturer creates a design, and from it a master pattern is made. Other patterns are cut out of tissue…