@zoey911zoey: #onthisday

Kellyanne :

I have so many pictures of my momma wearing flour sack dresses, circa the 1940's.

Zadie :

I had flour dress, when I was little.

Ashley :

Companies would print patterns on the bags once they found out people were making clothes. Today’s society would turn fabric bags into thin plastic if they found out we were using them to make clothes

joel vannatta :

it was after the flower companies realized that mothers are using the flower sack cloth to make clothing out of. they then started to print patterns on them

rosy.moonset :

The modern day version of this is reusing the plastic containers deli meat comes in (they even have the microwave/dishwasher safe symbols on them now)

Zenny☮️ :

yeah and the flour companies took notice and started offering bags with different designs and such. 🤨 did you also know that. My grandma told me. She even showed me some of the old old clothes.

Hidy_hidy_hi :

Flour companies during the depression noticed that moms were making clothes out flour sacks so the turned them into beautiful calicos. And they didn’t just cut holes in them & then wore a flour sack. They took the sack apart and cut into the item they wanted. Some really cute dresses were made from that fabric

headhuddles :

back when everyone could survive off the land mostly and were crafty.

TheHuman21 :

yes. they were poor. and then also the products available could be multi use. we cant really do that anymore.... id be happy too if my year of poverty and homelessness was mitigated by being able to reuse shit. but unfortunately that isnt possible now

Debbie Lovett :

I remember how comfortable my flour sack dresses were❤️

Tauri Downing :

Just cause they made shirts out of it does not mean it was made of shirt material. It just means that shirt was probably not very comfy.

Dallas :

An old ad from a feed company in Oklahoma that would package their livestock feed in printed bags for reuse 😊

Miss Rose :

I remember going to the feed store with my dad in the '60s to pick out a sack of pig feed because the material was going to be used to make our clothes well to make me a dress. so we got to pick out the pattern that we wanted because we were going to be wearing it. that was as late as the 60s

Ron :

It’s how my grandma took care of 6 kids

Natasha Dennison :

The manufacturing company did the different patterns for the sacks for that same reason. it was to help people in poverty with materials as well as affordable baking flower. It was 2 ways that they helped the economy.

SomeRandomGuy-3.0 :

My sweet little Aunt Violet and her husband, my dad’s brother Vernie, would couldn’t have kids of their own, so she made shirts for all of us cousins. Gad, we loved those two. Vernon was a welder in a shipyard back east when WW2 started. Later he shipped out to the Pacific on a ship that he helped build. Irony, that.

Sammy :

My great grandpa got a feed sack with the SMURFS printed on it. Mom made me curtains from it.

t84 :

The companies actually started printing their bags in patterns because a lot of families did this

user3687632486533 :

They are called feedbacks, even though salt, flour, etc came in them. It was smart marketing and not just the poor used them. Everyone was buying their staples the same way and it was an era of not wasting things.

Kill A Gender :

John Hannah :

And the economy was still 100x better than it is now

pepper ann :

flour company noticed what moms was doing so they started putting the flour in different pattern fabric.

Joanna :

back when the company cared about the customer

Miss Behaved :

I have pictures of my dad in his, sometimes they offered dishes in the sacks. this was back when companies cared about the customers using their products.

James Casey393 :

I grew up wearing a couple of shirts made from them. Lots of kids did .