Panties: German underpants (Unterhosen) made from American sugar sack twine (1945/46)
Various menstrual underpants and panties (and sanitary napkin belts), 1946-47 (page from Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog, U.S.A.)
Kotex "Panti" (clasp and band to hold pad in crotch; 1970s?, U.S.A.)
Kotex New Freedom towel & pantie ad (date? publication? U.K.)
Modess "Sanitary Shield" (two-band pad holder in crotch; 1970s; U.S.A.)
Modess "Panti-kini" (two-band holder to hold pad in crotch; 1960s-1970s, U.S.A.)
Many more women's underpants for menstruation


See also Ads for Teens

Booklets menstrual hygiene companies made for girls, women and teachers - patent medicine - a list of books and articles about menstruation - videos
Ads for teenagers
Many more PADS, BOOKLETS - See TAMPONS, MENSTRUAL BELTS, CUPS, SPONGES, UNDERPANTS
HOMEPAGE
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Some MUM site links:
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MUM address & What does MUM mean? |
Email the museum |
Privacy on this site |
Who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! |
Art of menstruation (and awesome ancient art of menstruation) |
Artists (non-menstrual) |
Asbestos |
Belts |
Bidets |
Birth control and religion |
Birth control drugs, old |
Birth control douche & sponges |
Founder bio |
Bly, Nellie |
MUM board |
Books: menstruation & menopause (& reviews) |
Cats |
Company booklets for girls (mostly) directory |
Contraception and religion |
Contraceptive drugs, old |
Contraceptive douche & sponges |
Costumes |
Menstrual cups |
Cup usage |
Dispensers |
Douches, pain, sprays |
Essay directory |
Examination, gynecological (pelvic) (short history) |
Extraction |
Facts-of-life booklets for girls |
Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads |
FAQ |
Feminine napkin, towel, pad directory |
Founder/director biography |
Gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux |
Humor |
Huts |
Links |
Masturbation |
Media coverage of MUM |
Menarche booklets for girls and parents |
Miscellaneous |
Museum future |
Norwegian menstruation exhibit |
Odor |
Olor |
Pad, towel, napkin directory |
Patent medicine |
Poetry directory |
Products, some current |
Puberty booklets for girls and parents|
Religion |
Religión y menstruación |
Your remedies for menstrual discomfort |
Menstrual products safety |
Sanitary napkin, towel, pad directory |
Seguridad de productos para la menstruación |
Science |
Shame |
Slapping, menstrual |
Sponges |
Synchrony |
Tampon directory |
Early tampons |
Teen ads directory |
Tour of the former museum (video) |
Towel, pad, sanitary napkin directory |
Underpants & panties directory |
Videos, films directory |
Words and expressions about menstruation |
Would you stop menstruating if you could? |
What did women do about menstruation in the past? |
Washable pads |
Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site.
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.

Kotex Personals Protective Panties
(1994, U.S.A.)
Ad for Kotex Personals Protective Panties
(1995, U.S.A., magazine unknown)
panties, underpants, sanitary napkin, tampon, pad, belts, menstruation, disposable

American panties specially designed for menstruation date to at least to 1922 (commercial belts came earlier). Since then numberless styles appeared on the market (see more) and perhaps before then around the world. Stopping leaking menstrual blood from escaping the pad or tampon or sponge or cup has been an important industry.

Kotex sold such underwear before (see column at left). This style, disposable, appeared in the 1990s.

I thank the donor!


Below: The light pink panties right out of the box,
where you can learn more about them.
 
Below: After looking around to see if neighbors were watching - they weren't - I set up
the mannequin in my back yard and started taking pictures.
This is the front showing the reinforced crotch.
 
 
Below: The rear packs more protection because of exposure when sitting among
other reasons.
 
 

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German underpants (Unterhosen) made from American sugar sack twine (1945/46)
Kotex "Panti" (clasp and band to hold pad in crotch; 1970s?, U.S.A.)
Kotex New Freedom towel & pantie ad (date? publication? U.K.)
Modess "Sanitary Shield" (two-band pad holder in crotch; 1970s; U.S.A.)
Many more women's underpants
Many more
BOOKLETS - See TAMPONS, MENSTRUAL BELTS, PADS, CUPS, SPONGES, UNDERPANTS

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