Flour Sack Dresses

It’s a favorite human interest story that I hope will pop up now and then forever. During the Great Depression, mothers who didn’t have the money for “store-bought” clothes improvised by cutting and sewing flour sacks into dresses for their little girls. Eventually, the millers started ordering their flour sacks in colorful prints so that the girls could wear something pretty.

When they needed to, mothers exerted and developed strengths to carry themselves through hard times. Just a bit more strength and skill applied here and there changed the outcome. My mother learned how to drive a truck and…