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Feed Sacks: The Colourful History of A Frugal Fabric

As you can see up top I could not resist the bubble bath girl. It turns out that feed sack prints came in a delightful array of styles from the usual floral print, to the bubble bath girl, to little piggies in a pen, to the most modern of geometrics like the orange squiggle right below the piggies. Linzee Kull McCray has brought together both the history of the industry of making feed sacks--which carried everything from chicken feed to flour for baking--and the clothing that women made it into. And offers a large array of images of the prints themselves.

Women had actually figured out that these very large sacks were a source of fabric before the manufacturers had, but then the manufacturers realized that the could offer their sacks in prints and out sell the other guy. Soon patterns were developed to make the most of feed sacks and told you how many sacks you would need to make a dress. Patterns for everything from dolls (some printed right on the sacks) to children’s clothes to dresses appeared and McCray offers many examples. The 1950s party dress patterns to make out of feed sacks are surprisingly glamorous. In fact, when I showed some feed sack prints and dresses to my students, they realized these were not makeshift garments, but items that anyone would be happy to wear.