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 they did. My 90+ mother wore dresses with matching undies. My grandmother made all her daughters' dresses. That was back in the early 1920's. You just made do.