I pulled at my dress. Melissa had sewn it for me last year out of a leftover flour sack. It was covered in small, faded strawberries. My favorite. The prettiest thing I owned suddenly looked hideous. And suddenly I cared.
With fabric (and money) in short supply, thrifty families began sewing clothes out of leftover flour sacks. When the sack manufacturers earned of the alternative uses for their products, they began making them in different patterns and colors in order to make them more aesthetically pleasing.
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