During the Great Depression, poor Americans often repurposed flour sacks to sew clothes for girls and women. Thus, one company, Kansas Wheat, started making colorful and patterned sacks. : r Damnthatsinteresting The Flour Sack Dress Exchange Little Rock, Arkansas, 1933 Feed sack cotton was all cloth many had in '33. Patterns bright, fabric strong. Seamstress Ella Mae Johnson set a table on her porch Behind the Seams Flour Sack Costumes Narrative Threads Flour Sack Dresses writinghersense