Flourbag Kids Dresses

PLEASE NOTE!!!!!

These are MADE-TO-ORDER and will take a minimum of 2-5 days to manufacture before they are shipped to you.

We do stock a few items, so if you need something urgently and are willing to perhaps not get the exact color you want, please Whatsapp me on 082 837 9275 and I can let you know what we have on hand. 

Meet your little one's new favourite dress! Our iconic South African flour bag girls dresses are made from 100% soft woven cotton and available in sizes 2–6 years. Sleeveless and breezy for hot SA summers, or layer over a long sleeve top and tights when it gets chilly. Comfy enough for the park, cute enough for a festival – she'll never want to take it off!

Here is a little history if you ever wondered where they originally came from: 

During the depression from 1929 to around 1933, there was great poverty worldwide.  Mothers everywhere had to use their innovative skills and creativity to feed and dress their families.  Not only in South Africa, but also in Australia and the USA.  Flour used to be sold in fabric bags. These ladies processed the flour bags by washing and bleaching them to make them softer and whiter or order to make garments from them. 

The first South African Bokomo pants (also known as Meelbroeke) were also made from the real Flour Bags, and if you bought one around 30 years ago, you might still have the original Meelbroek!  Nowadays the fabric is printed as there are no more bags like they used in the olden days and plastic and poly propylene is now used to make the bags.  The same fabric is still used, although a little stronger than that of the flour bags.

These pants might be a little stiff and hard when you buy them, mostly due to the colouring process, but after a wash or two, they become soft and before long, you will be living in them!