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"Classic" Sanitary Napkin Belt, U.S.A., about 1945
The word "classic" conveys comfort, solidity and security,
and implies a long history. Sports people sometimes misuse the word, in
naming tournaments, for example, that have never been played before!
See a German belt with washable pads from
just before this time.
See many more belts.
Large images, long download time!
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Tabs from a disposable menstrual pad snaked
through the buckles of this American menstrual napkin belt, worn around
the waist; it's probably from the 1940s. Disposable pads gradually replaced
washable pads in America in the 1920s and 1930s. Catalogs and stores
of the time, and until the early 1970s, sold dozens of models. Adhesive
pads appeared in the 1970s, almost killing the belt-and-tabbed-pad industry.
See a Swedish ad showing pad with
belt and a side view on an anatomical model
used by the old Tampax company (1945).
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At left we see the back of the package of the belt; at right,
the front. This museum has an almost full dealer's case of the packages,
bought from a seller of medical antiques.
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Copyright 2006 Harry Finley
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