I mean if you were a kid and your mom was making your cloths out of flour bags, would the DESIGN on the flour bag make a difference? It's still the same flour bag material. So why is everyone smiling? Who buys flour by the sack anyways? People who make their children's cloths out of flour bags, that's who.
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Those were older times , my Friend....
living in a rural (out in the middle of Nowhere) small southern town... in the years before WWII Materials of any sort were in low supply... thus the reason for these bags... the mothers really wanted to get their children "New" clothes... Most everyone was so poor... thus re-using anything "salvageable"...
In my early child ... never seem them make Flour in a "sack" but saw many a bag of fresh corn mill
Many would buy these larger "sacks" and store them for it was Much cheaper to buy in bulk ... A couple of shops in my town would have bags like these and sell "scoops" or by the pound... which was in much smaller (non-patterned) bags (made of the same type of material as those in your image ...
I was lucky enough to come along one generation after the "Flour Sack" clothing ... and my great grandma would often wear a (much older) dress made like that to work in the garden ... and would tell me how she used to make clothes for my grandfather when he was a child (Depression Era)...
All in all folks were poor and making use of what few materials that they could obtain...
I never expected that kind of response. I suppose my ancestors did the same when they first came from the old country.
Not really that "Sad" just goes to show how "resourceful" people can be when you basically have "nothing".... Lived mostly in poverty conditions for many years...
you just have to make do with whatever you have with which to work...
... Did mean to sadden you my Friend...
That was "Did Not mean to sadden you"...
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