Originally Posted by
Sandra in Minnesota
I was born post-war. Reading these articles is very interesting. My husband lived on the farm, and he said they always had to wear feed sack shirts. I have a question------- A dress obviously takes more than one feed sack, so did the ladies hunt down the feed sacks they needed until they had enough for a dress??
Yes, indeed they did. My mom often went with my dad to buy feed so she could decide which prints she liked best and my father often complained that he had to move about a ton of feed to get matching sacks for her!