3. Feedsacks and the Great Depression Feed Sack Fashions And Patterns of Depression Era America Flashbak Hudson Cream Flour Sack Dress Dead Center Vintage The Flour Sack Dress Exchange Little Rock, Arkansas, 1933 Feed sack cotton was all cloth many had in '33. Patterns bright, fabric strong. Seamstress Ella Mae Johnson set a table on her porch 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