Existing comment:
"We didn't have Kotex. We had diapers. [T]hey weren't very comfortable... you'd have to shape it, fold it over, just as you put it on a baby."
-- Mary Hanson, 1940s
Cotton Diaper, date unknown
Before disposable pads and tampons, girls used moss, folded linen, cotton rags, or diapers. Many girls without money used folded rags pinned to their underwear well into the 1900s. |