Flour Sack Dress Etsy 3. Feedsacks and the Great Depression Natural Dye Feed Sack Dress Ginger Root Garmentory Flour Sack Costumes Narrative Threads A mannequin displaying a flour sack dress depicting life during the 1930s Great Depression Stock Photo Alamy During the Great Depression, poor Americans often repurposed flour sacks to sew clothes for girls and women. Thus, one company, Kansas Wheat, started making colorful and patterned sacks. : r Damnthatsinteresting