{"id":148737,"date":"2015-06-22T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/22\/squeeful-appearinghatless-professorsparklepants\/"},"modified":"2018-09-07T17:28:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T17:28:26","slug":"squeeful-appearinghatless-professorsparklepants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/22\/squeeful-appearinghatless-professorsparklepants\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-148737 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/22\/squeeful-appearinghatless-professorsparklepants\/attachment\/148738\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tumblr_n0fg98WwVS1qabj53o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tumblr_n0fg98WwVS1qabj53o1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tumblr_n0fg98WwVS1qabj53o1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/squeeful.tumblr.com\/post\/113939585841\/appearinghatless-professorsparklepants\" target=\"_blank\">squeeful<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/appearinghatless.tumblr.com\/post\/107333579917\/professorsparklepants-roachpatrol-redjeep\" target=\"_blank\">appearinghatless<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/professorsparklepants.tumblr.com\/post\/104125795870\/roachpatrol-redjeep-retrogasm-when-they\" target=\"_blank\">professorsparklepants<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/roachpatrol.tumblr.com\/post\/75874917064\/redjeep-retrogasm-when-they-realized-women\" target=\"_blank\">roachpatrol<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/redjeep.tumblr.com\/post\/75583154003\/retrogasm-when-they-realized-women-were-using\" target=\"_blank\">redjeep<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/retrogasm.tumblr.com\/post\/75487424029\/when-they-realized-women-were-using-their-sacks-to\" target=\"_blank\">retrogasm<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When they realized women were using their sacks to make clothes for their children, flour mills started using flowered fabric for their sacks. The label was designed to wash out.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>1939 Kansas Wheat\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>holy fuck that\u2019s the cutest marketing scheme i\u2019ve ever heard of\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018buy our flour it\u2019s going to make the nicest bread <i>and<\/i> the sweetest\u00a0dress!\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>yes thank you ok sold<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There was also a chicken feed company that did this. My great-grandmother used to recycle the chicken feed bags to make dresses for my grandmother. That was also a pretty common practice; you can read about it in the Kit series of the American Girl books.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay but think about being a little girl wearing flour-sack dresses because your family can\u2019t afford dress fabrics, and you\u2019re always embarrassed because everyone else knows. And then one day you get to saunter into school showing off your cute little flowery dress. Because a company decided to add something to its product for a reason other than just making money for itself. Isn\u2019t that great?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They made pretty nice clothes, too, as flour sack fabric has to be fine and tightly woven to prevent the flour from working its way through.<\/p>\n<p>When WWII hit, it amped up and it wasn\u2019t just children wearing them.\u00a0 Apparel fabrics were rationed, but flour sack fabric wasn\u2019t.\u00a0 Flour companies started competing to see who can make the prettiest, most appealing flour sack flower print.\u00a0 If you look at some 40s war-era patterns, they have interesting seam lines designed to utilize the narrower fabric widths of sacks instead of bolt yardage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>squeeful: appearinghatless: professorsparklepants: roachpatrol: redjeep: retrogasm: When they realized women were using their sacks to make clothes for their children, flour mills started using flowered fabric for their sacks. The label was designed to wash out. 1939 Kansas Wheat\u2026 holy fuck that\u2019s the cutest marketing scheme i\u2019ve ever heard of\u00a0 \u2018buy our flour it\u2019s going &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/22\/squeeful-appearinghatless-professorsparklepants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[16995,261,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148739,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148737\/revisions\/148739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}