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 ...

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 ...

With feed sacks and flour bags, farm women took thriftiness to new heights of creativity, transforming the humble bags into dresses, underwear, towels, curtains, quilts, and other household ...

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 ...

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 ...

So they bought flour in 50- and 100-pound bags. Those sacks were made of durable cotton woven so sturdy the contents didn’t seep out. If that was good enough for flour, farm wives figured, it ...