More menstrual and everyday underpants
Japanese, early 20th century - "Sanitary Bloomers," 1922 (ad from Sears, Roebuck catalog, U.S.A.) - various underpants, 1928 (page from Sears, Roebuck catalog) - step-in, Hickory, 1928 (ad from Vanity Fair magazine, U.S.A.) - first Sears everyday panties (nonmenstrual), 1935 (ad from Sears, Roebuck catalog) - various panties (and belts), 1946-47 (page from Sears, Roebuck catalog) - various panties, 1960s (part of Personal Digest, Modess, U.S.A.) - SheShells panties (1970s)
Yet more underpants
Pad (towel) directory
Tampon directory.
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Protective briefs (menstrual panties), Boots Company, chemists (pharmacy), United Kingdom
1990s?


Special panties - briefs - for menstruation appear at least as early as the 1920s (Sanitary Bloomers) in the U.S. Panties themselves, or similar items, appeared over 2000 years ago and have an on-and-off history in the West. Their recent incarnation might have started here.

Earlier American panties for menstruation had clever devices to hold the nonadhesive pads (example), some similar to those of belts, but the briefs you see here simply form a discharge-proof (ideally, anyhow) surface for the newer adhesive napkins to stick to. (See the older tabbed pad.)

Boots is a leading pharmacy - chemist in the United Kingdom - in the British Isles and elsewhere. John Boot started the company in 1849.

Today, Boots also sells other menstrual products, including a menstrual pad (towel in the U.K.) belt for a tabbed pad. See a Boots medicine bottle.

Yet more underpants
Pad (towel) directory
Tampon directory.
I thank the U.K. donor!
Below: Front. The box measures 2 3/4 x 5 3/8 x 1 1/4" (7.2 x 13.5 x 3 cm).
Below: Back.
   
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More menstrual and everyday underpants
Japanese, early 20th century - "Sanitary Bloomers," 1922 (ad from Sears, Roebuck catalog, U.S.A.) - various underpants, 1928 (page from Sears, Roebuck catalog) - step-in, Hickory, 1928 (ad from Vanity Fair magazine, U.S.A.) - first Sears everyday panties (nonmenstrual), 1935 (ad from Sears, Roebuck catalog) - various panties (and belts), 1946-47 (page from Sears, Roebuck catalog) - various panties, 1960s (part of Personal Digest, Modess, U.S.A.) - SheShells panties (1970s)

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