Flour Sack Dresses During The Great Depression

Why Flour Sacks During The Great Depression Were So Important.
If your grandparents ever shared stories from their youth, chances are they probably talked about The Great Depression. Times were difficult for many families who did everything to make ends meet during the recession that led to the stock market crash 1929 as unemployment was extremely high.
Because of the economy, clothing was expensive and many women began creating clothes for their families out of cotton flour sacks. When flour companies realized this, they began creating them with colorful patterns and offered DIY instructions for sewing ideas right on the package.
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[@pilarboutte392]

Such beautiful clothing. Having had family from the Great Depression, I've learned the value of repurposing things.❤

[@wesleyponder2513]

I'm 56 but still remember the flower sack clothes that my grannie made for us. I still have my little flower sack coad packed away. Grate video

[@marieravening927]

I'm a quilter in Australia and have read many references to flour bag clothing and quilts in America.
I've also seen references to seed sack clothing and quilts and wondered if these were the same thing.
I have a lot of fabric flour bags from two flour mills in Western Australia. These are about thirty years old. They are printed with the mills' logos' and I don't think they ever printed their calico flour bags with pretty designs, even in the depression.
Still they are collectors items now especially the ones for Dingo flour, which have a big red dingo on the front.

[@aproverbshome173]

Beautiful dresses.

[@NotJackAlderson]

The Great Depression: let’s give people colourful patterns
Nowadays: we should probably charge extra for that

[@Angellady11]

My grandmother had a beautiful Islamic dress made from flour sack (1930s) that’s still in good condition even though my grandma is dead and I actually fit in to the dress coincidentally during the same time in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia they were making dresses out of different kinds of sacks because everyone was so poor