​Flour Sacking: Multiple Choice Grammar Test

( 1) _______’s more depressing than a trend born of (2) _______ Great Depression, when nothing in America (3) _______ : even flour sacks became the go-to dress material for women everywhere.The height of the trend came in the late 1930s, when rural fashion (4) _______ to its heyday due to country women who could sew (5) _______ and became the fashionistas of their era dominating the national sewing competitions that (6) _______ up across the US.

Thriftiness was in fashion, and the fashion trend — flour sacking — (7) _______ on everywhere. Women who (8) _______ really adept at flour sack dresses even managed (9) ______

- extra money by (10) _______ their dresses to (11) _______ and participating in contests where women could show off their flour sack creations, which gave flour sack dresses their own sort of fashion clout. Later , savvy sack makers were catering to the trend by (12) _______ bags in brighter colors and with more intricate patterns, hoping their products (13) _______ because of the (14) _______ packaging. Large sacks of feed and flour were particularly desirable, as they provided (15) _______ material.