Knuckledraggin My Life Away : The Sack Dress (How Appalachian Women Clothed Their Families)

Monday, February 20, 2023

The Sack Dress (How Appalachian Women Clothed Their Families)

The complete history of how Appalachian Women used flour sacks to make sack dresses and sack quilts, and linens for their families.

VIDEO HERE (8:51 minutes)

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It wasn't just Appalachian women, it was poor folks everywhere. I can remember my Okie great-grandmother wearing flour sack blouses, and they didn't look bad at all.

Folks that lived through the Depression learned to make do with what they had.

Inspirations

"The Spartans do not inquire how many the enemy are, but where they are." AGIS II 427 B.C.

"No, no, I've got 'em right where I want 'em - surrounded from the inside." -- Mad Dog Shriver when told to break up his recon team and evade, that he was about to be overrun by North Vietnamese Regulars.

“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits." - Thomas Jefferson

"The world don't owe you a living, Boy." - Pops

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Monday, February 20, 2023

The Sack Dress (How Appalachian Women Clothed Their Families)