Golden Poppy Rice Sack Dress 3 Women As Financial Crisis Hit, 'Feed Sack Dresses' Became a Common Article of Clothing During The Great Depression. Made at Home, Usually by Women, From Cotton Sacks in Which Flour, Sugar, Animal Feed, Cotton flour sack dress Dress I made from flour sacks boug Flickr Flour sack history lesson! In the 1930's, sacks containing flour and grain were made of cloth, primarily cotton. In the midst of the great depression, The Kansas Wheat Company realized that the