Besides garments and feed sacks, the “Thrift Style” exhibition at the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum also includes quilts, such as this four-patch quilt, circa 1930.

The sacks were typically made of cotton at the time, and it wasn’t uncommon to buy items like feed, flour and sugar in bulk. In the 1920s and ‘30s, when milling companies realized that ...

MANHATTAN, Kan.–K-State’s Beach Museum of Art is featuring the history of feed sacks and revealing that there were many uses for them other than just holding food. New uses for “feed sacks ...

The event, with 41 works from patterns to garments, will run through Saturday. Hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

What: traveling exhibition on the Depression- and World War II-era upcycling of feed sacks into garments and other household items Where: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum, 204 S. Main ...