Loretta Lynn recalled wearing a ‘little flour-sack dress’ to watch the preacher’s Christmas sermon as a child Lynn’s parents couldn’t often afford new things, but her mother would ...

I wore those flour sack Easter dresses to Sunday School and church like I was the Queen of England," she elaborates. "I was so happy and so thankful and so proud. ...

Before "going green" was trendy, generations of Americans lived like conservationists. If something broke, it was fixed, not merely replaced. When a vegetable was in season, there were a dozen ...

Margaret Swicegood Fort reflects on 100 years of living, from making dresses out of flour sacks to survive the Depression to Asheville's current boom.

The mills promoted the use of their feed and flour sacks by working with McCalls and Simplicity to create patterns that would incorporate these materials. "The history of the “sack” dresses is ...

Wearing a flour-sack dress got you labeled as poor and sent you down a rung or two in social circles. So, the flower and seed companies started printing their sacks with smaller logos and pretty ...

Flour was a staple in pioneer homes, and so was the flour sack. As soon as a frugal homemaker had emptied a 50-or 100-pound bag of flour, she turned the soft cotton material into tea towels ...