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“...my Granny used to make me dresses out of flour sacks, which used to have all sorts of designs on them.”

My mother made me dresses out of those flour sacks with designs on them. She made all my clothes until I went to college and that was the first time they bought me ready-made clothes.

My store bought clothes came mainly from the next to new shop in a town about 10 miles from where I lived. Mom worked at the restaurant 16 hrs or more per day;she had no time nor talent for sewing.

I liked it because no one else had the same outfit, and the kids had no idea where they came from.LOL

Same here. I wasn't allowed to have jeans so my aunt bought me 4 pair when I went off to college so I remember every ready made outfit I bought in college. I was sewing all my clothes by junior high and still don't understand what was so bad about real jeans because I was allowed to make denim pants. I'd have the wildest fabric for pantsuits - stripes, strawberries, flowers and giant plaid. The best was a short cropped work type jacket and high waisted bell bottoms in a red, white and blue stripe, lol. Yeah, visions of Hillary in striped pants and pantsuits. I did the laundry, too, and somehow (cough) one pair of pants got bleach on them so there was no way to save them but to tie dye them! And peasant skirts. What was that skirt called that was just a huge piece of fabric that had an elastic waistband and you'd throw the bottom half of the fabric between your legs to make the pants part and then pull it up and tie around your waist to create a skirt?