So wonderful to read from the many friends my age (I'm 67 now) about their feed/flour sack clothing. The Depression and War years meant we appreciated whatever we got, and we were from way out in the country--no stores other than the one General Merchandise/Feed/Grocery store. My grandmother made me beautiful dresses from these sacks. A neighbor friend scorned my sack clothing. Her mom could afford to buy her dresses from catalogs (but not many, and her mom couldn't sew, either). I wasn't hurt by that. My grandmother could look at those in the catalogs and make tne dress for me from the fabric (feed sacks or whatever) she had on hand. I knew who was best dressed and that my dresses were made with love, not ordered from a catalog. Those catalog dresses weren't so well made. One rough day on the school playground and their seams were ripping and the lace trims were hanging. HA!
I now have my grandmother's treadle machine (still works!) on which she sewed all these wonderful dresses, slips, panties for me back in the 1940"s.