During the Great Depression flour companies learnt that poor families made clothes from the empty flour bags, so they started making patterns on them.(1930’)
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My grandmother had dresses made from them for my mom when she was little and shirts for my mom's twin brother.
She had one dress that she tore a hole in and my grandmother patched it so the pattern matched so perfectly and used such small sticking you would never tell where it was torn unless you were told where it was.
When my grandmother passed away they were cleaning out the house she was a Horder but it was due to her unable to clean in her old age. There was no trash just alot of stuff lol. Anyways my cousins found about 50 stacks of these bags. So my aunt's and mom all made quilts and teddy bears with them. My mom has a my bear.
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She had one dress that she tore a hole in and my grandmother patched it so the pattern matched so perfectly and used such small sticking you would never tell where it was torn unless you were told where it was.
When my grandmother passed away they were cleaning out the house she was a Horder but it was due to her unable to clean in her old age. There was no trash just alot of stuff lol. Anyways my cousins found about 50 stacks of these bags. So my aunt's and mom all made quilts and teddy bears with them. My mom has a my bear.