When I was a teenager in the 1960s, there were still three or four
printed flour sacks from the farm my father grew up on - a lovely rich
blue with white flowers I used to make a skirt, and another one or two
white with little floral bouquets on them. The fabric got nice and soft
after a few washings, and I loved that skirt!
On 1/13/14 9:11 PM, lacel...@frontier.com wrote:
The Belgian flour sacks I saw were white, with the embroidery on them.
The
pre and post war USA flour sacks that the common people bought their flour in
were pretty printed cotton fabrics. People made their own bread and used lots
of flour. With careful buying, a family could acquire several sacks with the
same print. As a child, some of my favorite dresses were made from flour sack
materials. My grandmother's kitchen curtains were also from flour sacks. The
printed fabric looked just like fabric from the store.
The underwear that
was embarrassing was made from white flour sacks with Smith Premium Flour or
such words on it that would not wash out. A child did not want Premium
across his rear. It told anyone who saw it that the family didn't have money
to buy new fabric for underwear.
The flour sack clothes would have been
nicer if they had had lace on them.
Alice in Oregon -- getting ready for
lace meeting tonight
--
Martha Krieg
Michigan USA
"God expects spiritual fruits, not religious nuts."
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