I was born at the end of the 1930's(1938). My family had lived through the great depression and my aunt raised chickens and sold eggs to mom and pop grocery stores in town. My Mother made some of my dresses from feedsacks. She made a lots aprons, also. I still have one little dress made from a feed sack; blue with cowboys on bucking horses. I recently found a reproduction fabris of the same print bu in brown. We only went to town once a week and made lists all week to be sure to get all that was needed. Stores and businesses were open 6 days a week and closed at 5PM. Nothing to do at night. It was still a good life.