She made ruffled curtains for the house or shack, From that humble but treasured flour sack! The Great Depression hit hard in rural areas, and flour sack material came to symbolize hard times. Many of ...

One of our faithful Inter Lake readers sent me a poem the other day titled “Flour Sack Underwear,” along with a note saying “hope this little poem brings back some fond memories.” The poem is about a ...

I just wrote about hand-me-down clothes, but now I want to tell you about home made clothes that were made from feed and flour sacks. When I was growing up the feed sacks and flour sacks were made ...

Caprock Chronicles is edited each week by Jack Becker a Librarian at Texas Tech University Libraries. This weeks article is by Marian Ann J. Montgomery, Ph.D., Curator of Clothing and Textiles, Museum ...

Women made garments out of the leftover sacks, and companies noticed. By 1925, at least one company, Gingham Girl flour, packaged its goods in dress-quality fabric and used its sacks as a selling ...

Marketers often talk about meeting the customer’s needs or understanding the customer’s journey. Being a good corporate citizen means taking care of your community. But at the beginning of the 1900s, ...