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Word: sewn-in (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1949-1949
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...dish towels made of old flour bags. And they were selling at a furious clip (30,000 in ten shopping days). Sears, Roebuck & Co. was also advertising them in its new spring catalogue (and sales were brisk). In groceries, housewives were buying flour in 25-lb. bags that had sewn-in drawstrings; the buyer had only to unstitch a seam and she had a gaily printed cotton apron. Across the U.S., thousands of women, following instructions in special pattern books, were turning similar dress-printed bags into clothes, curtains, tablecloths, napkins, quilts and slipcovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COTTON: A Double Life | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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