I Made a Dress Out of Potato Sacks!

slightly wholesome fact: during the great depression, parents would often dress their children in potato sacks, as they did not have enough to afford regular clothing. When potato companies found out about this, they would print fun patterns on potato sacks so the children would not have to wear plain potato sacks (the same was also done with flour sacks, which was more common at the time, but this video is about potato sacks, so i had to include the potatoes first)

Rachel, you should wear this dress to a state fair or a farmers market to see what people's reactions would be.

pleeeaaaase remember this dress when halloween comes around, because I would absolutely love to see you style this as a scarecrow-outfit!

I have grown very fond of this, "Jenna Marbles as a retired Massachusetts Hobbit" esque channel over the past couple of years. What a fun dress, Rachel.

Morgan: Making a Latex Medieval Dress Rachel: Making a Potato Sack Pinafore Can't wait too see what Bernadette is doing next.

This is giving me such "Disney princess before she becomes a princess, and is still living in the woods/on a farm/as a servant" vibes and I love it

"You could wear a potato sack and look great" Rachel: Actually wears potato sacks. Actually looks great. 🥔❤

As soon as I saw the cookie tin, I thought: "It's happened. Rachel has reached peak Grandma." :D

"oh wow, your dress!" "what, this old potatoe sack?" is a conversation that can happen now. I love it.

Fun fact! My grandma's school dresses were made out of flour sacks when she was growing up, because they didn't have the money to buy fabric or pre-made dresses (this wasn't that long ago either...think late 50s/early 60s...the Depression took its time leaving rural areas). This was common enough at the time that flour companies began selling their flour in sacks printed with pretty patterns.

“It’s called leg acting. Look it up.” That whole segment made my whole damn day. 😂

I love how she embodies both the etherial gracefulness and chaotic gremlinocity of a true fae

It seems like Rachel is approaching the Jenna Marbles model of "I'm just gonna do whatever weird-ass craft project strikes my fancy! (alongside my skinny dog)" and I for one am here for it

I'm from a small town from Germany and we are celebrating every year a festival called Potato-Festival and every year the potato - princess is crowned. This would be the perfect dress for this 😂😂😂🥔👸

Very cute. And "kinda" historical. My mother remembers her grandmother making her night gowns out of flour sacks. :) It was something great gramma learned during the Depression in the 1920s and 30s. (Mom was born in '47.) I understand that alot of flour companies even started printing their fabric flour sacks with pretty designs so they could be re-used for clothes.

Wow! That biscuit tin gave me flashbacks to going to my nans and eating those tasty sugar coated biscuits that would sit in little paper cups. Memories unlocked! 🔓 Thanks Grandma Rachel! 👍

Someone somewhere: throws something away Rachel: whips head around, nostrils flared to inhale creative potential, velociraptor shriek of joy

Yesssssss! I am here for this! Fun family story: When my grandparents first met, my grandmother was wearing a potato sack dress and smoking a corncob pipe. My grandpa was very intrigued by this outlandish girl who wasn't afraid to speak her mind. It was basically love at first sight.

Love the dress! Also, get yourself a huge cutting mat and a rotary cutter. You'll save your wrists to much pain when cutting out patterns and fabric.

13:44 Can confirm from my own experience working at one which closed (store nextdoor was landloard and wanted to expand so terminated our lease and the store was informed 5 weeks before closing), people do in fact buy buttons like it was a turbo man doll. Worst part was manually adding the liquidation sale individually at the register to the some 50 buttons. Don't get me started on the lady who filled up a big stocking bin (like 3-4 carts worth) with the last of our ribbon. Registers can only handle about 100 items at a time, and that lady did like 4 transactions. And then the second-to-last day where someone bought some 25 bolts of fleece.... those were a chaotic 5 weeks.