Originally Posted by
dlong
Both of my grandmothers saved all their feed and flour sacks for my mom and she made ALL of my clothes until I was old enough to do my own. My first winter coat was my dad's wool pea coat from the navy repurposed to a coat for me. Guess underwear and socks were the only things she bought for me until I was nearly grown.
I remember my grandma sewing feed sacks into clothes for me, and me sewing the feed sacks into blouses and skirts myself! And one of my warmest coats was cut down from a coat she had which had been a spring coat, so she made a very heavy lining and put that into the coat. It was deep red coat with a velvet collar and boy was it warm. Grandma could do anything. I think if one lived on a farm back then they were pretty lucky. I was pretty lucky.