Hi Everyone,

  Here are some photos of the flour sack clothes.  Left to right, the scratchier shorts with the almost too short drawstring and no pocket. I wear them for swimming; the good shorts with the back pocket and the long enough drawstring, for wearing around and even into town; last the top which I am wearing right now!

“Good shorts”

The top, front and back.  I look like an employee of NBC!  I am wearing my thread necklace too.  The shorts and top cost 350 pesos; about $8.  I ordered them one morning and they were ready the next afternoon.

  The tread necklace with the Red Sox hat charm and the charm my niece Jess brought me back from Hawaii.  t think of it as my “America charms”  one from back east and one from as far west as you can get. The necklace cost 150 pesos, about $3.50 and took an hour to make.   I tried taking a close up of it on my neck, but that was not an appealing photo.  I looked like a distant relative of the bird on the shirt!

Our Roanoke neighbor Lucy Nace had sack clothes stories and so does Randal.  My mom made our clothes, and I remember remnant stores we would hunt through for material, but no sack clothes.  Too bad, they are really fun.