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Sewing "Back Then" Where Did They Find The Time? Candide 05-27-2006
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Posted by Karen Maslowski on May 28, 2006, 8:05 am
And if you have an older home (from the early 1900's and older), you
clearly see that closet space was not considered the way it is today.
Only someone like the Queen of England would have had a closet like
Oprah's, and probably not even then. Certainly there would not have been
100's of pairs of shoes in it!

Gee, when we were growing up we had one outfit for church, five dresses
for school, a couple of sets of play clothes, and three pair of
shoes--one each for the three venues. And that was pretty much it,
except for coats and a light rain jacket, and maybe a hat. In fact, I'm
trying to get back to that way of dressing; my closet contains a ton of
clothes, but I don't wear many of them, some of which are 10 years old,
or more. It's too confusing to try to figure out what to wear!

Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati
www.sewstorm.com


Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to send wrote:

> Easy.
>
> In the first place, people didn't have as many clothes as we do today,
> and they made them last longer.
>
> In the second place, there was no TV, no movies, no soccer games, no bar
> scenes for the average person, etc., etc., etc.

Posted by Vikki In WA State on May 28, 2006, 12:28 pm
You know, they didn't waste any time. There was no tv, they didn't have to
run to the store, no after school activities. But when the bread or buscuits
were baking, or the clothes were on the line drying were moments for hand
work. They didn't shower every day so that saves 45 minutes. I am just
saying we use a lot of time for things they wouldn't have thought about.
Once your daughters were old enough, they were expected to help in the
house.

My late MIL told me she and her two sisters always fought over the flour
sack. The one that got it had new underwear. My MIL herself saved the
string off the flour sack and feed sacks and when she was married she had
enough lace tatted from that string to put lace on every curtain in her new
house.

--
Vikki in WA State



> And if you have an older home (from the early 1900's and older), you
> clearly see that closet space was not considered the way it is today.
> Only someone like the Queen of England would have had a closet like
> Oprah's, and probably not even then. Certainly there would not have been
> 100's of pairs of shoes in it!
>
> Gee, when we were growing up we had one outfit for church, five dresses
> for school, a couple of sets of play clothes, and three pair of
> shoes--one each for the three venues. And that was pretty much it,
> except for coats and a light rain jacket, and maybe a hat. In fact, I'm
> trying to get back to that way of dressing; my closet contains a ton of
> clothes, but I don't wear many of them, some of which are 10 years old,
> or more. It's too confusing to try to figure out what to wear!
>
> Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati
> www.sewstorm.com
>
>
> Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to send wrote:
>
> > Easy.
> >
> > In the first place, people didn't have as many clothes as we do today,
> > and they made them last longer.
> >
> > In the second place, there was no TV, no movies, no soccer games, no bar
> > scenes for the average person, etc., etc., etc.



Posted by Erin on May 28, 2006, 4:21 pm

Vikki In WA State wrote:
>
> My late MIL told me she and her two sisters always fought over the flour
> sack. The one that got it had new underwear.

My Mom Mom Hawkins (paternal grandmother) told me how they made their
nightgowns out of the flour sacks by cutting open the bottom (for a
neck hole and the sides (for arm holes). She then embroidered the raw
edges with a bit of floss to make them nice.

Erin


Posted by Candide on May 28, 2006, 6:50 pm
>
> Vikki In WA State wrote:
> >
> > My late MIL told me she and her two sisters always fought over the
flour
> > sack. The one that got it had new underwear.
>
> My Mom Mom Hawkins (paternal grandmother) told me how they made their
> nightgowns out of the flour sacks by cutting open the bottom (for a
> neck hole and the sides (for arm holes). She then embroidered the raw
> edges with a bit of floss to make them nice.
>
> Erin

Bringing this back on topic! *LOL*

Old feed/flour sack material is very highly sought after these days for
all sorts of things including quilt backing. Personally cannot imagine
wearing or sleeping in anything made from them, but then again have only
seen modern sorts of materials. Am told the vintage "real McCoy" is very
soft and quite durable.

Candide
(with a huge bolt of vintage Pequot sheeting fabric that someday will
get worked on).



Posted by Joy Beeson on May 28, 2006, 8:35 pm
wrote:

> Old feed/flour sack material is very highly sought after these days for
> all sorts of things including quilt backing. Personally cannot imagine
> wearing or sleeping in anything made from them, but then again have only
> seen modern sorts of materials. Am told the vintage "real McCoy" is very
> soft and quite durable.

*Very* soft -- they used a different kind of spinning machine in those
days. And to this day, I persist in expecting cotton to get softer
after it's washed. Never happens, but I keep on expecting it!

Flour and sugar came in paper bags by the time I came along, but we
used seed-corn sacks for anything heavy duty -- my older sister is
still using the seed-corn sack dish towels she started housekeeping
with in the late fifties.

Mom used to take me to McDonald's Chick Hatchery to pick out my new
play clothes: they had what we would now call a lawn building piled
to the rafters with empty cotton sacks, which smelled very strongly of
ground grain. I would find a print I liked and Mom would tell me how
many matching sacks she needed to make me an outfit. I think they
charged ten cents per sack.

I think that some of those old-time spinning machines are still in
operation in India.

Joy Beeson
--
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