Image Links / Curtain Clothing

Images that demonstrate Curtain Clothing can go on this page.

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• Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'hara in the famous curtain dress◊ from Gone with the Wind.
• There's a long and stories history behind the reuse of flour and feed sack material to make dresses. During The Great Depression, women would reuse the cotton from flour and animal feed bags to make towel & slip covers for their homes and clothes for their families. This tradition continued into the 1940's, when fabric was rationed during World War II. Some examples of the phenomenon include:
  • A 1941 photo by Jack Delano photograph of children wearing matching feed sack dresses. Taken at the State Fair in Rutland, Vermont.
  • An old Life Magazine photograph of a man wheeling a cart full of patterned flour sacks◊. The companies that sold flour in these sacks realized that thrifty women were more likely to buy their product when they could reuse the fabric for items like dresses, skirts, and blouses.
  • A 1949 Percy Kent Bag Co. advertisement for patterned bags◊ aimed at flour producers - basically saying that "women will buy your product if you package it with our product." And another◊, showing some of the many things that women could make with reused flour bags.
    • Percy Kent Bag Co. took it a step further - they partnered with Walt Disney to create a series of patterns based on Alice in Wonderland and proceeded to market◊ the hell out of feed and flour sacks with those Disney prints. Here's a link to [[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Percy_Kent_Bag_Company,_Inc. a whole collection]] of prints that were produced.
  • The front and back covers◊ of a booklet produced c. WWII demonstrating the many projects that could be made from reused cotton bags.
  • Two women in a (possibly recolored?) photograph wearing feedsack dresses◊ - they're surrounded by similarly patterned sacks.
  • On a more modern note, American Girl Doll Kit Kittredge's original doll came with a skirt based on flour-sack clothes from the 1930's.

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