Originally Posted by
cashs_mom
I remember those. I actually used one when I was just out of high school and working for a dept store. Remember when dept stores carried fabrics sometimes called "yard goods"? (or was that just my mother that called them "yard goods"?)
I think the term “yard goods” came about back when ladies bought six yards of fabric to make a skirt. When I was 15, grandma made me a floor length prairie dress with “leg-o-mutton” sleeves. It actually took six yards of cotton for the skirt. I wore that dress constantly, every time it came out of the dryer. I wish now I had preserved it for the memories. It was made of a black calico