Feed sack dress

What was the influence of war on fashion in the 1940s? The fabric shortages, the thousands of women who joined the forces

I wanted to save some of my mother's memories of wearing feedsack dresses back in the 1930s. Feedsack fabric was turned into quilts, curtains and other useful items. It's popular with collectors now.

Posts about 1920s written by Amanda Goebel

Feed for my goats and ducks comes in woven polypropylene bags with a cute photo label. During the summer, I sew them into tote bags to sell at the farmers' market. During the winter though they stack up a bit and I can try new things with the extras. The first project was a party dress made from the Layena chicken chow bags. It took two bags for the full skirt and another bag for the top. Though we did line the top with soft cotton fabric, the seams were still a bit scratchy and the dress is…

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The iconic Gunne Sax dress was named after a slang term for a feedsack! Commodity textile bags—more often called gunny, feed, or flour sacks—were used to make clothes during the first half of the 20th century. The company name played off a version of that burlap bag.

Fashion from the 1940s and ‘50s provokes thoughts of glamour and sophistication, along with an air of playfulness. Yet, little has changed in what consumers

Sometimes in the middle of scanning all of these pages the dresses start to look very similar. Well, truth be told, many of these dresses are very similar, but the first few pages of today's run actually have some real gems that I would love to replicate for my closet! I am not a huge fan of a shirt dress/house dress myself, just because I feel they make me look super matronly for whatever reason, but the different style lines and pretty geometric patterns of the other dresses here are right…