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Post by oldmontana on Oct 7, 2021 17:41:24 GMT -5
littlethings.com/family-and-parenting/flour-sack-dressesflour-1 Times were lean during the Great Depression, so scrimping and saving — and reusing everything possible — was a way of life. Today, people still love to save money and reduce waste through clever DIY projects, like turning old tires into lovely ottomans. But in those days, "doing it yourself" wasn't a trend; it was a necessity. ========================================================== Saw this on Army Security site and found it interesting.
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Post by Drifter on Oct 8, 2021 11:34:17 GMT -5
This was very interesting oldmontana! I remember some of the stories my mother told about those days. She use to make feather pillows with the down from the ducks they raised. My mother could sew anything, she was a good seamstress.
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Post by formerlyme on Oct 9, 2021 13:54:43 GMT -5
Talk about ingenuity and creativity...Wow! Many of those patterns were gorgeous! Thanks for posting it, oldmontana!
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Post by ruby on Oct 10, 2021 12:58:07 GMT -5
Great history about flour sacks. Thanks for sharing, oldmontana.
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Post by oldmontana on Oct 16, 2021 20:22:34 GMT -5
How Depression-Era Women Made Dresses Out of Chicken Feed
By the middle of the 19th century, it became more cost-effective for companies that shipped commodities like flour and animal feed in wooden barrels to package their goods in fabric instead. Between then and the middle of the 20th century, flour, sugar, seed, and other commodities you’d now find in the bulk food aisle arrived in American households in fabric sacks.
Women made garments out of the leftover sacks, and companies noticed. By 1925, at least one company, Gingham Girl flour, packaged its goods in dress-quality fabric and used its sacks as a selling point. By the Depression years, printed sacks were widely reused, and the practice continued through fabric-starved years of World War II and into the early 1960s. ========================================================
It was not just Flour Sacks.
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Post by louie on Oct 21, 2021 20:16:06 GMT -5
I purchased feed sack material to make my boys pillow cases when they were young. They adored them.
My mom wore a feed sack dress to school. I don't imagine hers were very fancy. She said her mom even made them burlap sack dresses to wear for chores.
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