Today's random object. Don't forget to like and subscribe. And click the bell so you'll be notified about coming videos. By the middle of the 19th century in the US, the economies of shipping commodities such as annal beads, seeds, sugar and flour became more cost effective to package and ship in sacks rather than in barrels, which was what had been previously used. By the late 19th century, flour sacks were often printed in various colors and designs and recycled for clothing and other purposes. Farm women recycled the sacks into clothing and by 1925 at least one company, Gingham Girl, was packaging and dress quality fabrics and using their sacks as a selling point. By the 1930s, companies regarded the sacks as a crucial part of the marketing product. One feed store owner complained about purchase decisions moving from the farmer to the farm wife saying years ago they used to ask for all sorts of feeds. Now they come over and ask me if I have an egg mash and a flour per kale and ain't natural. During the Great Depression in the US many families sold clothing from discarded flour sacks. Often flour would be purchased according to the patterns printed on the bag. The sacks had so many uses and the clothing made from them was so common that flour sacks entered the local folklore. Kendra Brands found that as an element of material culture, the clothing and clothing practices of rural populations reflect the life and times of an era to the same extent as that of the general population. However, it is the activities of these farm wives clothing their families and feed sacks to offer a view of life that was unique to rural communities during this time period. Several people from rural Virginia spoke about their clothes made from sacks during the Depression. Back then feed was sold in sacks. I believe they held almost a hundred pounds of seeds. A number of farmers who didn't so return their sacks for resale. I actually made the bows and pants and dresses from sacks. Mama always sold on a singer-treated sewing machine and made our sacks from flour sacks. She made sure dad would get two sacks just like that was what the pattern took to make dresses right. Mama made me pen of fours out of flour sacks. Flour sacks were made of cotton with pretty prints. Dresses made from my sisters and me were sometimes made out of cotton feed bags. I guess my brothers were lucky. My mother made shirts out of feed sacks which a lot of cow feed came in. An estimated three and a half million women and children wore flour sacks clothing during the Great Depression. It just became a way of life as times were very hard. According to Smithsonian, with feed sacks and flour bags farm women took thriftiness to new odds of creativity. Transforming the humble bags into dresses, underwear, towels, curtains, quilts, and other household necessities. During the early parts of the 20th century, Chinese workers made clothing from flour sacks sometimes called hunger clothes. A photograph from 1948 shows school children wearing uniforms made of United Nations Relief Rehabilitation Administration flour sacks. In Europe, flour sacks were used in clothing, quilts, coats, and strainer s. Feet sacks and flour sacks were also used to make ragdolls and doll quilts for children.