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Feedsack Frocks
Ladies showing off their feedsack frocks.
Liza Ferneyhough’s (aka. Stellarbaby) wonderful illustration and post about feed sack dresses
“the great depression is so visually interesting. feed sack dresses! flour sack undies! cardboard insulation!
flattened tin can roofs! dugouts! canned veg! people were so resourceful.”
I get so obsessed with the inventive and colorful prints from feedsacks of the era.
My great-grandmother’s quilts have snippets of some of the very best ones ever!
It’s almost as if the psychedelic cheerfulness was meant to directly combat the dreary dustiness of everyday 1930′s life.
Jill from Tea with the Vintage Baroness lookin’ sweet in her floursack dress.
This lady has some really wonderful 20′s and 30′s dresses, and a great sense of style! Love her photos!
Nothin’ beats a little flowered feedsack in the summertime, y’all! I love this one Miss Anja (Clever Nettle) found.
Love this pretty pinky number worn by The Snail and The Cyclops
Dirt roads and bare feet, indeed!
♥ Style on a shoestring: thrift tips from British Vogue during the Great Depression
♥ Topman LTD launches its latest range ‘Dust Bowl‘ inspired by the drifters that built America’s railroads, resulting in vintage inspired garments in denim, twills and heavy washed jersey. A nod to native American styling is offered in the form of embroidery and patch-work.
♥ Darla at Retro Ways Dustbowl Dames
♥ Jay Watson’s Dust Bowl themed shoot for Garage magazine
♥ Shorpy’s Image Gallery from the Great Depression – the photograph we used for the poster came from here!
Thanks Shorpy! We love you so!
I say, there’s one way to wear it! Lawdy!
The following photos are from the Library of Congress photo archives on flickr:
Jack Whinery, homesteader, and his family, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940
1941 – At the Vermont State Fair – a family in feed sack dresses
Let’s Go! World’s Fairs of the 1930s
Orchestra at square dance in McIntosh County, Oklahoma, 1939 or 1940
Sugar cane worker and his woman, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, 1941 – Notice her shirt, made out of sugar cane sack!
Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a Farm Security Administration cooperative, vicinity of Natchitoches, La.
Three children sitting on the porch of a house, 1940.
Are you feelin’ inspired yet? I know we are!
6 Responses to Feedsack Frocks
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Lovely post
But the picture you have credited as The Opulent Poppy is actually Jill from The Vintage Baroness, also a feedsack dress just the wrong woman!
Oh, a subject near and dear to my heart: feedsack frocks! Fabulous!!! One little note: you’ve got a picture of me listed as The Opulent Poppy hehe. I’m Jill over at Tea with the Vintage Baroness. ANYWAY, if your compliment was meant for me not Opulent, THANK YOU VERY MUCH! I think you are the most stylish dame going, so that’s huge!
Oh, of course, Jill, I know your blog very well & think you are a very stylish dame! It was late when we wrote this and our links got mixed up
All is fixed – thanks for the heads up!
PS Come to Austin for our party!
hi amelia!
another little bit of inspiry for you: newspaper curtain scallops
–liza!!
I can’t thank you enough for this blog post. Eye candy galore! I’ve been obsessing over feedsacks for awhile, and trying to daydream up creative ways to use them in clothing with the little yardage they provide, since I sadly have no access to sending my husband off to buy more than 1 at a time, lol.
Beautiful feed sack dresses. Weren’t the prints pretty? Lovely post.