Flour Sack Dresses

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When I was a little girl, my grandmother told me about dresses that her mother used to make her called flour-sack dresses. I thought she meant flower sack-dresses similar to the sundresses that I used to wear as a child. I begged my mother to make me a "flower sack-dress." She told me that she couldn't because flour didn't come in sacks like that anymore, but I was hardheaded. (Can't imagine where I got that from!) I was convinced that if she'd just take me to the fabric store, we'd be able to find flowers to put on my sack dress.

When I discovered that she meant flour-sack dress instead of flower sack-dress, I was disappointed but determined. I still wanted one and never forgot about those dresses.

As I grew older, I asked Grandma about them again. She told me that her Daddy was the conductor on the train that traveled back and forth across the county. He would pick up the shipment of flour and set aside the prettiest patterns for his wife and girls. My great-great grandmother would then sew herself and her four girls dresses from those flour sacks.

Flour sack dresses are just a tiny part of the rich history of my family and I wanted to help immortalize them with this blog.

In case you're wondering- yes, I still want one.


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