Origin of 'Lynnfield Fabrics' Revealed In User Comment

About a year ago, I asked readers if they knew anything about a "Lynnfield Fabrics" company that once existed in Boston. A man had written to Lynnfield Patch saying that he purchased a vintage "Tonetwill by Lynnfield" jacket at a yard sale - and apparently the only mention of the company online was a previous local history column on this website joking about how the unfortunately named "two ply" garment looked like something either Chairman Mao or Madeleine the children's book character would wear. 

Funny thing about the Internet is that only this week, a woman named Margy Linn Berg and her sister came across this article - And Margy was kind enough to provide the whole story. It turns out the company was run by her father, but the "Lynnfield" connection came from elsewhere. Here is her note that she posted under the previous article: 

"Not sure how my sister found this question as we have not thought about Lynnfield Fabrics for many, many years. It was my father who owned Lynnfield Fabrics. His name was Carl Linn (spelled differently) and his partner was Dave Satterfield, hence Lynnfield. The two ply was actual for two tone and was sold to raincoat manufacturers with most colors in beige and a second tone of blue. We grew up in Newton, MA and I used to always complain how my friends parents owned all sorts of companies and their samples were toys, bikes and other fun things while all I ever got was his "ugly" raincoats. The office on Essex St. in Boston was very near Fenway Park and I used to love going to the Red Sox Games. My dad has a second location in the Empire State Building in NY and both my brothers and many relatives worked for him. Lynnfield did not have anything to do with the town of Lynnfield and has been out of business since the late 60s when my father moved to Wareham and got into real estate. My parents are no longer alive."             

Editor's Note: Do you have an interesting question about some obscure long-ago thing about Lynnfield? We've actually had a bit of luck finding readers who know the answers to such things. Email william.laforme@patch.com and we'll see what we can find out.