My mother sent me several pages of stories about growing up during the Depression. This will cover some number of blog postings, but here we go:
Feed sacks and flour sacking were used for clothing. The material was printed with various patterns as they were intended to be reused.
Mother remembers opening the sack to make a large flat piece of material. She cut a strip from the long edge to use as the waistband. The rest of the material was gathered some at the top edge and sewn so that the zipper was on the left side. The waistband was added and the hem sewn at the lower edge. This was not only acceptable, Mother says she loved doing it and wearing the final results.
My father's mother would make flour sacking over into aprons. I still have one and the material is in excellent shape, sturdy and unworn about 80 years later.
They used to make things to last. And the current generation did not invent repurposing and recycling.
Thanks for visiting with me,
Kathi
Feed sacks and flour sacking were used for clothing. The material was printed with various patterns as they were intended to be reused.
Mother remembers opening the sack to make a large flat piece of material. She cut a strip from the long edge to use as the waistband. The rest of the material was gathered some at the top edge and sewn so that the zipper was on the left side. The waistband was added and the hem sewn at the lower edge. This was not only acceptable, Mother says she loved doing it and wearing the final results.
My father's mother would make flour sacking over into aprons. I still have one and the material is in excellent shape, sturdy and unworn about 80 years later.
They used to make things to last. And the current generation did not invent repurposing and recycling.
Thanks for visiting with me,
Kathi
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