a lot of my dresses and my brother's shirts were made from feedsack fabric. Our neighbor had cows and my mother would look at the different prints and ask him to get more of that in his next load. Yes -- sometimes our underwear was made of them too. Always aprons were made of them.
Mim
Being poor -- and most of us were back then -- we didn't know we were poor. And we didn't ask for handouts. A couple times a year the government sent bags and barrels of surplus foods. I still love dried apricots